{"product_id":"tethered-to-stars-poems-paperback","title":"Tethered to Stars: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFady Joudah\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of Poetry of 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos--intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTethered to Stars\u003c\/em\u003e inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and the living language of loss and desire. With an analytical eye and a lyrical heart, Fady Joudah shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and sometimes even the horoscope. His gaze lingers on the interior space of a lung, on a butterfly poised on a filament, on the moon temple atop Huayna Picchu, on a dismembered live oak. In each lingering, Joudah shares with readers the palimpsest of what makes us human: \"We are other worms \/ for other silk roads.\" The solemn, the humorous, the erotic, the transcendent--all of it, in Joudah's poems, steeped in the lexicon of the natural world. \"When I say \u003cem\u003ehoney\u003c\/em\u003e,\" says one lover, \"I'm asking you whose pollen you contain.\" \"And when I say \u003cem\u003ehoney\u003c\/em\u003e,\" replies another, \"you grip my sweetness \/ on your life, stigma and anthophile.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeeming with life but tinged with a sublime proximity to death, \u003cem\u003eTethered to Stars\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that flows \"between nuance and essentialization,\" from one of our most acclaimed poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFady Joudah\u003c\/b\u003e has published four collections of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Earth in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAlight\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTextu\u003c\/i\u003e, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eFootnotes in the Order of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768991383840,"sku":"9781571315342","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7760b5217188b92d1df1e9f4e90c5c24.webp?v=1780340837","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tethered-to-stars-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}