Tethered to Stars

- Reviews -

"This is what we have had to do, amid pandemic, grief, political chaos, fires, human rights disasters: continue on with our lives. Doing chores . . . taking walks . . . teaching kids . . . trying to stay steady. In his brilliant forthcoming book, Tethered to Stars, Fady Joudah writes about the mysterious cosmos swirling with intricate linkages-as his phone is pinging. Ah, yes, Jerusalem, the Holy City! Right now, let' s call all our cities holy. Let' s hope our trees continue to communicate, whatever humans can or can' t accomplish. " -Naomi Shihab Nye, New York Times Magazine "True to its title, Joudah' s collection of poems musically connects the body to the Earth and the Earth to the stars . . . It' s earthy and ethereal, as we are. " -Houston Chronicle "Joudah centers his fifth poetry collection on the 12 star signs and other astrological phenomena, blending his physician' s penchant for precision and the poet' s ear for lyricism . . . What shines most brightly here is Joudah' s ability to render extended imagery that plays out over several poems. An uprooted oak in one poem creates a place to plant olive pits in another. Dandelion and sunflower florets populate the pages. Butterflies lay eggs in lemon trees and enchant speakers from afar . . . Another stellar entry in this poet' s expansive body of work. " -Booklist "This is a treatise on cosmic unity that does not shy away from grief, but that yearns for the immense, abstract sense of possibility, believing that ' a heart remains a heart in its beyond' . . . analytical and biblical in its rise and fall. Each poem seems to be spoken from various perspectives, the roving voices echoing and replacing one another in their observations until both the speaker and addressee dissolve. ' You' ll be everywhere,' one poem closes. Joudah offers a nuanced vision of what connects man to the cosmos in this deeply searching book. " -Publishers Weekly "So much of Tethered to Stars grapples with what is difficult to understand. From the nature of stars to racial tension, mortality, and his own cultural heritage, Joudah uses his lyricism to attempt to uncover life' s mysteries. This collection deals with these complex and inexplicable topics, and yet it does so in a way that never abandons its tenderness, curiosity, and admiration for the beauty of the world. " -The West Review Praise for Fady Joudah "Joudah' s poetry thrives on dramatic shifts in perspective, on continually challenging received notions. "-The Guardian "A luminous aesthete who thinks in nuance, in refinements. "-Louise Glu ck "Joudah has been writing essential poetry for some time . . . forging a lyric that works at the crosscurrents of reportage, myth, and dream where falsely imagined boundaries of gender, nation, family fray and unfold. . . . Joudah' s gifts for articulating the intersections of bewilderment, tenderness, rage, and grief are fully alive. " Mary Szybist "If you love poetry, or simply wonder what powerful poetry is and what it can do for you, then the poems of Fady Joudah are waiting for you. "-Rowan Ricardo Phillips "With a quiet certainty, Joudah names those ordinary things that hold everything in focus, grounded in a fabular mystery that resonates in the twenty-first century. "-Yusef Komunyakaa "Joudah' s poems defy classification, not because they perplex, but because of their remarkable power of synthesis. His mode is the lyric, with its concinnity and necessary music, but his lyrics compress, contain and then liberate the matter of narrative: allegory, fable, folktale, parable, documentary. He is a superb, seductive storyteller. "-Marilyn Hacker "Joudah examines his subject with an eye both clinical and caring, alert to the symptoms we don' t recognize or won' t admit we have. His language is like crystal: patterned, prismatic, sharp. "-Evie Shockley "Joudah' s mission is perhaps to spiritualize our minds, and to catch the heart in its deepest modes of thinking, and the outcome is lyric of the highest order. " Khaled Mattawa "A doctor, Joudah reads bodies like texts, illuminating their stories . . . [and] bringing a loving precision to his descriptions. "-Minneapolis Star Tribune "Joudah' s poems are driven by a delight in all aspects of language. . . . [This] is the work of a restless poetic mind whose inventive and capacious poems bring wonder and skepticism and incandescent language to bear on questions of human experience. "-The Rumpus "Supple . . . We often say that poetry transforms, but Joudah' s verse also transports. "-The Millions "Joudah is a remarkable poet of great intellect and vision. . . . [His] thought-provoking and imaginative juxtapositions shine. "-Arkansas International

- Author Bio -

Fady Joudah has published four collections of poems, The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; and, most recently, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the coeditor and cofounder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.

- Full Details -

Status:	Active
ISBN-13:	9781571315342
Published:	25 Mar 2021
Published In:	United States
Imprint:	Milkweed Editions
Publisher:	Milkweed Editions
Format:	Paperback
Height:	215mm
Width:	139mm
Pages:	104

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