{"product_id":"tethered-to-stars-fady-joudah-9781571315342","title":"Tethered to Stars: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of Poetry of 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos--intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTethered to Stars\u003c\/em\u003e inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and the living language of loss and desire. With an analytical eye and a lyrical heart, Fady Joudah shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and sometimes even the horoscope. His gaze lingers on the interior space of a lung, on a butterfly poised on a filament, on the moon temple atop Huayna Picchu, on a dismembered live oak. In each lingering, Joudah shares with readers the palimpsest of what makes us human: \"We are other worms \/ for other silk roads.\" The solemn, the humorous, the erotic, the transcendent--all of it, in Joudah's poems, steeped in the lexicon of the natural world. \"When I say \u003cem\u003ehoney\u003c\/em\u003e,\" says one lover, \"I'm asking you whose pollen you contain.\" \"And when I say \u003cem\u003ehoney\u003c\/em\u003e,\" replies another, \"you grip my sweetness \/ on your life, stigma and anthophile.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeeming with life but tinged with a sublime proximity to death, \u003cem\u003eTethered to Stars\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that flows \"between nuance and essentialization,\" from one of our most acclaimed poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fady Joudah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571315349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2021 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2021 pg. 13","brand":"Fady Joudah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050748965119,"sku":"9781571315342","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_279e72db-054a-4f1b-aa1e-fe28bfee80dc.jpg?v=1685009015","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tethered-to-stars-fady-joudah-9781571315342","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}