Fady Joudah is the author of […], a finalist for the National Book Award. He has also published six collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the 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 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, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.

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Stick Figures 9

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Mimesis 13

Bonsai Weeping Willow 14

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Progress Notes 20

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Eid Mubarak 29

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I Seem as If I Am: Ten Maqams 38

Maqam for a Green Silence 49

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Kufic 54

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Barzakh 58

Leaves, Glass 60

Maqam for Apricot 61

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Ode to an Onion 63

No Kissing, No Biting 64

This Time, Actual Bees 65

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Dedication 74

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Acknowledgments 81