Fady Joudah - February 19, 2015

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Fady Joudah

Poet and physician Fady Joudah reads uncollected and new poems; poems from Alight (2013) and Textu (2014); and translations from the works of Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Zaqtan, Hussein Barghouti, and Amjad Nasser.

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Welcome and Introduction
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by Tyler Meier

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Excerpt from "Mural"
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Darwish, Mahmoud. If I Were Another. Trans. Fady Joudah. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

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"Tenor"
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Joudah, Fady. Alight. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2013.

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"Listening"
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Joudah, Fady. Alight. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2013.

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"Schoolgirl"
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Joudah, Fady. Alight. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2013.

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"Still Life"
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Joudah, Fady. Alight. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2013.

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Excerpts from Petra: The Concealed Rose
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Nasser, Amjad. Petra: The Concealed Rose. Trans. Fady Joudah. Portland: Tavern Books, 2014.

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Sequence from Textu
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"Immune," "Commissure," "Descending Tongue," "Iron Maiden," "Bulb," "Eurydice," "Ariadne," "A Thousand & One Nights," "Divorce," "Because," "They," and "Discipline & Punish."

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Joudah, Fady. Textu. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2014.

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"Wolves"
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Zaqtan, Ghassan. Like A Straw Bird It Follows Me and Other Poems. Trans. Fady Joudah. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012.

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On his new poems and the concept of the word-body
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"The Peach State"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Joudah, Fady. "The Peach State." Oxford American:The Southern Magazine of Good Writing 86 (2014): n. pag. Web. 11 March 2015.

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"I Dreamed You"
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By Hussein Barghouti; translation by Fady Joudah. 

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Joudah, Fady. Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2018. 

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"Dear Sister"
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Joudah, Fady. Textu. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2014.

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"First"
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Uncollected.

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"Siblings" and Question and Answer Session
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Joudah, Fady. Alight. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2013.

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Fady Joudah
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Cybele Knowles
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