Fady Joudahs <strong>The Earth in the Attic</strong> is this years winner of the Yale Seriesof Younger Poets competition. In his poems Joudah explores big theme... » 

Fady Joudahs The Earth in the Attic is this years winner of the Yale Seriesof Younger Poets competition. In his poems Joudah explores big themesidentitywar religion what we hold in commonwhile never losing sight of thequotidian the specific Contest judge Louise Gluck describes the poet in herForeword as that strange animal the lyric poet in whom circumstance andprofession . . . have compelled obsession with large social contexts and gravenational dilemmas. She finds in his poetry an incantatory quality andconcludes These are small poems many of them but the grandeur of conceptionis inescapable. The Earth in the Attic is varied coherent fierce tenderimpossible to put down impossible to forget. «