Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well. — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were initially stamped… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“Mimesis My daughter wouldn’t hurt a spider That had nested Between her bicycle handles For two weeks She waited Until it left of its… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash. — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
