Name: Textu, Paperback/Fady Joudah
Brand: Copper Canyon Press
Price: 93.99 RON
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Joudah's poetry thrives on dramatic shifts in perspective, on continually challenging received notions.-- The Guardian Emerging 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. Textu Your spine a river into the forest can't tell the neurons for the trees I light & light you up with sound profile threading the image habit of pleasure Conscience When we learn how an infant in the womb Sleeps precisely in a parent's pose say with fist closed pillowing the temple What will become of the poem A 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 Textu 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? This 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