Ellipsis
Ellipsis by Fady Joudah, published by Milkweed Editions in 2024, is a collection of 81 poems that explores the complex experiences of the Palestinian people. This edition presents Joudah’s sixth collection, which articulates themes of loss, grief, and the ongoing struggle for presence amidst historical erasure. The poems invite readers to engage with the urgent realities faced by Palestinians, offering a lens through which to view both ordinary desires and profound tragedies.
In this collection, Joudah responds to the unspeakable with a series of meditative sequences that reflect on the interplay between past and future. The work emphasizes the importance of language and the necessity of resuscitating it in the face of adversity. Through intimate clarity and expansive themes, the poems navigate the emotional landscape of war and protest, urging readers to reconsider their perspectives and be transformed by the experiences conveyed. Ellipsis serves as a poignant exploration of identity and resilience, resonating with those interested in contemporary American and Middle Eastern poetry.
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Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize
A Reading the West Book Award Finalist
From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.
Fady 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.
Responding 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.”
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