Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah’s The Earth in the Attic won the Yale Series for Younger Poets in 2007. His translations of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry have earned him a PEN USA award and a Banipal prize from the UK.
Fady Joudah
Tenor
To break with the past Or break the past with the past The enormous car-packed Parking lot flashes like a frozen body Of water a paparazzi sea after take off And because the pigeons laid eggs and could fly Because the kittens could survive Under the rubble wrapped In shirts of the dead And the […]
Still Life
You write your name on unstained glass So you’re either broken or seen through When it came time for the affidavit The panel asked how much art Over the blood of strangers the word Mentioned the weather and the sleepers Under the weather all this Was preceded by tension enzymatic To the hills behind us […]
Museum
Photographs with bullet holes face up or down all nude and if alive then with priapism or many vaginal views an anagram between cover up and exposition If the catastrophe goes on a man comes into focus in his enemy’s eyes when they meet as expecting fathers a mother speaks exactly of the moment a […]