Even though Palestinian-American Fady Joudah’s poem is sparingly titled “[...],” an ellipsis surrounded by brackets, this work itself is psychologically dense. Through crisp lines and language, it wrestles with the nature of human ambivalence — about things like fear, desire, disaster, liberty — and it finds certainty only in the shaky universal ground of that ambivalence.Fady Joudah is the author of <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/fady-joudah/#media">[…]</a>. He has also published five other collections of poems, including <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/fady-joudah/#media">Textu</a>, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/fady-joudah/#media">Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance</a>; and <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/fady-joudah/#media">Tethered to Stars</a>. He has translated several collections of poetry from Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife and children, where he works as a physician in internal medicine.<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/fady-joudah/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.We’re pleased to offer Fady Joudah’s poem and invite you to subscribe to <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com/">Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack</a> newsletter, read <a href="https://linktr.ee/poetryunbound">the Poetry Unbound book</a>, or listen to past episodes of the podcast. Order your copy of <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/kitchen-hymns/21131749?ean=9781556597107">Kitchen Hymns</a> (new poems from Pádraig) and <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/40-poems-on-being-with-each-other-a-poetry-unbound-collection-padraig-o-tuama/21077256?ean=9781324086161">44 Poems on Being with Each Other</a> (new essays by Pádraig) wherever you buy books.

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