β Scribed by Fady Joudah
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Fady JoudahβsThe Earth in the Atticis the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. In his poems Joudah explores big themesβidentity, war, religion, what we hold in commonβwhile never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise GlΓΌck describes the poet in her Foreword as βthat strange animal, the lyric poet in whom circumstance and profession . . . have compelled obsession with large social contexts and grave national dilemmas.β She finds in his poetry an incantatory quality and concludes, βThese are small poems, many of them, but the grandeur of conception is inescapable.The Earth in the Atticis varied, coherent, fierce, tender; impossible to put down, impossible to forget.β
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