Textu
Published on 19. August 2013
90 pages
978-1-61932-097-0 (ISBN)
Description
Emerging in the era of tweets and text-messages comes a new poetic form: textu. The "u” in textu echoes the one in haiku, and also emphasizes the intimate you. A textu poem has a single rule: be exactly 160 characters long. As theme, form, and style are wide opened, a textu reveals new possibilities and poetry in unexpected ways.
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Fady Joudah: Fady Joudah is a poet, translator, and emergency room physician. Born in Austin, Texas, and the son of Palestinian refugees, he was raised in Libya and Saudi Arabia. Joudah received his medical training from the Medical College of Georgia and University of Texas, and has traveled the world with Doctors Without Borders, providing medical assistance to those harmed by violence and catastrophe. His first book, The Earth in the Attic, won the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, and his second book, Alight, was published by Copper Canyon Press. In 2010 he received a PEN translation award for his translations of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Note to the Reader
- Dedication
- Contents
- The TEXTU
- Immune
- Commissure
- Descending Tongue
- Iron Maiden
- Bulb
- Eurydice
- Ariadne
- A Thousand & One Nights
- Divorce
- Because
- They
- Discipline & Punish
- Do You Remember
- The Chosen
- Chronic
- A Childhood
- Honeycomb
- Revolution 1
- Revolution 2
- Revolution 3
- Revolution 4
- Revolution 5
- Blake
- Spring & All
- Darwish
- "Neither for nor Against"
- Emily
- Portraits
- Arabic
- Revenge
- My Funny Life
- Textu
- Translation
- Or
- Mutual Fund
- Fidelity
- Luke Cool Hand I'm Your Father
- Patient
- He
- 102
- Time
- 87
- Hospice Hymn
- Window Has Closed
- CHF
- Two Arrows
- The One
- The Mind in State
- Elegy for Neurotransmitters
- Authenticity Bargain
- Tomography
- When the Grandmother Dies
- Syncope
- Kiss Pollution
- Martyrdom
- Anonymous
- Rain
- Saliva
- Believe
- Shock
- Awe
- Vigil
- You Cannot
- Rubaiyat FitzGerald
- Captain America
- Right of Return
- Dear Sister
- Cockroach
- 33
- Thank You Dark World
- I Only Want from Love
- A Word in Arabic
- The Old Man Who Wept
- In Love
- I Come
- My heart pounds
- A History
- Of Your Lovers Who
- Travelling Light
- Tie Me Up
- Dancing
- Arc de Triomphe
- Textu
- Conscience
- Books by Fady Joudah
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special Thanks
