Textu
"Joudah's poetry thrives on dramatic shifts in perspective, on continually challenging received notions."—The GuardianEmerging 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...
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"Joudah's poetry thrives on dramatic shifts in perspective, on continually challenging received notions."—The GuardianEmerging 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
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781556594762 (1556594763)
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Pages no: 118
Edition language: English
First, I thought the poems were gimmicky, but then I changed my mind. I went to an author reading at the Poetry Center in Tucson, and found out some more about the composition of the poems. Joudah mentioned how he was under an intense period of his life, and his choice was "doing this or pills". Eac...
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