{"product_id":"poems","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":"Bookends, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46740801716482,"sku":"9781639551286","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/3370\/8546\/files\/9781639551286.jpg?v=1757629517","url":"https:\/\/bookendsllc.us\/products\/poems","provider":"Bookends, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}