Textu

"Joudah's poetry thrives on dramatic shifts in perspective, on continually challenging received notions."—The Guardian Emerging 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, form, and style are wide opened, a textu reveals new possibilities and poetry in unexpected ways. Textu Your spine a river into the forest can't tell the neurons for the trees I light & light you up with sound profile threading the image habit of pleasure Conscience When we learn how an infant in the womb Sleeps precisely in a parent's pose say with fist closed pillowing the temple What will become of the poem "A collection of poems that takes its form from the text