Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic. In  Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance , Fady Joudah has written love poems to the lovely and unlovely, the loved and unloved. Here he celebrates moments of delight and awe with his wife, his mentors, his friends, and the beauty of the natural world. Yet he also finds tenderness for the other, the dead, and the disappeared, bringing together the language of medicine with