[...]: Poems
Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lensāa world filled with ordinary desires, no matter how grand or tragic the details may beāand asks their reader to be changed by them. The sequences are meditations on a carousel: the past returns as the future is foretold. But āRepetition wonāt guarantee wisdom,ā Joudah writes, demanding that we resuscitate language ābefore [our] wisdom is an echo.ā These poems of urgency and care sing powerfully through a combination of intimate clarity and great dilations of scale, sending the reader on heartrending spins through echelons of time. [ā¦] is a wonder. Joudah reminds us āWonder belongs to all.ā