{"product_id":"poems-1","title":"...: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFady Joudah’s powerful sixth collection of poems opens with, “I am unfinished business,” articulating the ongoing pathos of the Palestinian people. A rendering of Joudah’s survivance, [...] speaks to Palestine’s daily and historic erasure and insists on presence inside and outside the ancestral land. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResponding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens—a world filled with ordinary desires, no matter how grand or tragic the details may be—and asks their reader to be changed by them. The sequences are meditations on a carousel: the past returns as the future is foretold. But “Repetition won’t guarantee wisdom,” Joudah writes, demanding that we resuscitate language “before [our] wisdom is an echo.” These poems of urgency and care sing powerfully through a combination of intimate clarity and great dilations of scale, sending the reader on heartrending spins through echelons of time. […]is a wonder. Joudah reminds us “Wonder belongs to all.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67577571868979,"sku":"9781639551286","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/1108\/1267\/files\/9781639551286.jpg?v=1790457358","url":"https:\/\/slantoflightbooks.com\/products\/poems-1","provider":"Slant of Light Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}