Reposted by Cat Chong
Just over a week to submit to the seventh issue of Permeable Barrier! This latest issue is guest edited by our very own @brihughespoet.bsky.social!
Cat Chong
@marbledmayhem.bsky.social
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Poet, publisher, essayist, crip—PhD on gender, genre & disability at NTU, Singapore. Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham. Digital Editor at Osmosis Press. Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023) (they/them)♿️🏳️⚧️
![Screenshot from Electric Lit’s best poetry books of the year: […]: Poems by Fady Joudah
This unforgettable collection provokes from its very title: the ellipsis represents an unfinished thought, a loss for words, a life extinguished, erased. Joudah sustains the tension of the collection by reminding us always of the impossibly high stakes, the lives lost every day in his native Palestine. He employs a measured tone and Ivric precision that cut to the heart of the tragedy, allowing the poems to speak on both the personal and the academic level. The collection leaves the reader with re-fortified belief in the cause of Palestinian resistance and with gratitude to be living at the same time as such a monumental talent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bv4psdh7brztu3qigmxbs4bv/bafkreid5zkxl3se7jaumdruqzh72acohxtrwpdaipwjstcx62jo25i2mge)
!['Fady Joudah's [...] is a collection that captures so much. It is an important lyrical document that is, in a sense, infinite - unfinished - and perhaps it will always be so. Even when Palestine is free, the poems in this volume will live in a space of deep contexture. They are mimetic. The poems exist beyond the lines within them. They are in everyone and everything Joudah names in 'Dedication', the beautifully poignant and powerful penultimate poem, an embrace that begins:
To those whose memory, imagination, and bodies are my memory, imagination, and body. From the collective to the one under the same assault, no matter our location on Earth.
As well as the space within, [...] gestures also toward that which lives outside of the brackets of the title and in the expanse 'from gleaming river/ to glistening sea'.
- Alycia Pirmohamed on [...] by Fady Joudah,
Wasafiri, Issue 119
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