Outside the Joy - Awad, Ruth
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"Part ode, part elegy, part protection spell, Ruth Awad’s Outside the Joy  holds at its radiant heart precarity itself. These poems inventory the losses, the mercies, and the small miracles in this life that is not ours for long: Here is the moon as freckled as a mother’s skin, and here is the “sunlight that arrives//first at your window, quietly pawing/ even when you can’t stand it.” What a gift to be haunted by these words."  —Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful Outside the Joy is poems that sear with lyric clarity about grief, love,…mehr

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"Part ode, part elegy, part protection spell, Ruth Awad’s Outside the Joy  holds at its radiant heart precarity itself. These poems inventory the losses, the mercies, and the small miracles in this life that is not ours for long: Here is the moon as freckled as a mother’s skin, and here is the “sunlight that arrives//first at your window, quietly pawing/ even when you can’t stand it.” What a gift to be haunted by these words."  —Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful Outside the Joy is poems that sear with lyric clarity about grief, love, survival, and wonder amid personal  loss and environmental collapse.  Tracing losses both interpersonal and universal – from a mother’s failing heart to environmental and economic decline ravaging ancestral homelands – OUTSIDE THE JOY is a compendium of abundance in a world rife with want.  With a voice as singular as it is illuminating, Awad explores the sharp contrasts of our shared existence: the human capacity to hurt and to hold one another, the love and grief that grow from our ephemeral connectedness.  These poems unearth the sacred in the ordinary and invite you to do the same – “if only / you’ll let the world / soften you with its touching.”
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Ruth Awad is a Lebanese American poet, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Widely anthologized, her poems most recently appear in You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón and published in association with the Library of Congress (Milkweed Editions, 2024). Her poems have also appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The Believer, New Republic, Kenyon Review, Pleiades,