Textu

by Fady Joudah

Overview

Emerging in the era of tweets and text-messages comes 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781619320970
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Publication date:	08/19/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	90
File size:	465 KB

About the Author

Fady Joudah: Fady Joudah is a poet, translator, and emergency room physician. Born in Austin, Texas, and the son of Palestinian refugees, he was raised in Libya and Saudi Arabia. Joudah received his medical training from the Medical College of Georgia and University of Texas, and has traveled the world with Doctors Without Borders, providing medical assistance to those harmed by violence and catastrophe. His first book, The Earth in the Attic, won the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, and his second book, Alight, was published by Copper Canyon Press. In 2010 he received a PEN translation award for his translations of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.