Fady Joudah — [...]

<p>Even though Palestinian-American Fady Joudah’s poem is sparingly titled “[...],” an ellipsis surrounded by brackets, this work itself is psychologically dense. Through crisp lines and language, it wrestles with the nature of human ambivalence — about things like fear, desire, disaster, liberty — and it finds certainty only in the shaky universal ground of that ambivalence.</p><p>Fady Joudah is the author of <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/fady-joudah/#media"><i>[…]</i></a>. He has also published five other collections of poems, including <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/fady-joudah/#media"><i>Textu</i></a>, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/fady-joudah/#media"><i>Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance</i></a>; and <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/fady-joudah/#media"><i>Tethered to Stars</i></a>. He has translated several collections of poetry from Arabic and is the co-editor a...