{"product_id":"textu-paperback","title":"Textu - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFady Joudah\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoudah's poetry thrives on dramatic shifts in perspective, on continually challenging received notions.--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmerging in the era of tweets and text messages, poet Fady Joudah has invented 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTextu\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour spine a river into the forest\u003cbr\u003ecan't tell the neurons for the trees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI light \u0026amp; light\u003cbr\u003eyou up with sound profile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethreading the image habit\u003cbr\u003eof pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConscience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen we learn how an infant in the womb\u003cbr\u003eSleeps precisely in a parent's pose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003esay with fist closed\u003cbr\u003epillowing the temple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat will become\u003cbr\u003eof the poem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of poems that takes its form from the text message necessarily raises similar questions about attention, and attendant questions about empathy. Each poem in Fady Joudah's \u003ci\u003eTextu\u003c\/i\u003e was composed on a smart phone's text message screen, and is \"exactly 160 characters long, specific to text message parameters.\" Aren't text messages the epitome of what we glance at in passing, and then just as quickly forget, in that often-described stream of information and stimulation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is not a reductive critique of this stream, or what it is doing to us. Neither does the collection let its premise--the textu form--justify itself without inquiry, as though shaping a poem according to the strictures of a text message necessarily makes the poem interesting. Instead, the form feels central to these poems, and to what they are doing. Joudah has pointed out that for most people in the world who can't afford unlimited texting, exceeding the character count means incurring additional costs; the character is a unit of economic value. The constraint of character count in the book, then, is not only a new kind of meter. It is also a metonym for the ways in which our language and our relationships are constrained by the world in which we live: by taking their form from one born of late capitalism, the text message, what these poems implicitly suggest is that all of our communication--and all of our poems--are shaped by this system, whether we would prefer to hold our attention on this fact or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is fitting, then, that even as \u003ci\u003eTextu\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to consider the context in which lyric poems are made, it draws on and locates itself within the lyric tradition. The textu form shares the lyric's feel of intimate address, the \"u\" in \"textu\" suggesting an interlocutor to whom the poems are addressed. And the poems in the collection take on, among other subjects, the conventionally lyric subjects of natural beauty, loss, and desire. --Margaree Little, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFady Joudah\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, translator, and emergency room physician. His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Earth in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. He lives near Houston, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFady Joudah: Fady Joudah is a poet, translator, and emergency room physician. His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Earth in the Attic, \u003c\/i\u003e won the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets. In 2010 he received a PEN translation award for his translations of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 118\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 5.9 x 4.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 23, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351229350137,"sku":"9781556594762","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RWxpL25hcWJpUkRRUU1PNnJOY2pLQT09.webp?v=1769795769","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/textu-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}