The Earth in the Attic (Yale Series of Younger Poets) [Paperback]

Fady Joudah (Author), Louise Gluck (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2008 | Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets (Book 102)

Fady Joudah’s The Earth in the Attic is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. In his poems Joudah explores big themes—identity, war, religion, what we hold in common—while never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise Glück describes the poet in her Foreword as “that strange animal, the lyric poet in whom circumstance and profession . . . have compelled obsession with large social contexts and grave national dilemmas.” She finds in his poetry an incantatory quality and concludes, “These are small poems, many of them, but the grandeur of conception is inescapable. The Earth in the Attic is varied, coherent, fierce, tender; impossible to put down, impossible to forget.”

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The Earth in the Attic underscores Fady Joudah''s great talent for exacting naked feelings that engage the age-old mysteries of this world, while maintaining a levelheaded residence amidst the everyday vagaries of modern life. The poems here radiate from the personal out into the larger world, propelling along moments of light and transcendence. With a quiet certainty, Fady Joudah names those ordinary things that hold everything in focus, grounded in a fabular mystery that resonates in the twenty-first century."—Yusef Komunyakaa

(Yusef Komunyakaa ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American medical doctor and a field member of Doctors Without Borders since 2001. He lives in Houston, TX. He is also the translator of Mahmoud Darwish’s recent poetry The Butterfly’s Burden.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (April 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300134312
• ISBN-13: 978-0300134315
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #941,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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