Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems - Paperback

by Fady Joudah (Author)

"Few books of American poetry seem to me as essential as this one. These poems blaze into the visionary." -MARY SZYBIST

Author Biography

Fady Joudah has published three books of poems, The Earth in the Attic, Alight, and Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is cellphone character count. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN Translation 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.