pJoudah's poetry thrives on dramatic shifts in perspective, on continually challenging received notions.--iThe GuardianippEmerging 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.ppbTextubppiYour spine a river into the forestbrcan't tell the neurons for the treesippiI light lightbryou up with sound profileippithreading the image habitbrof pleasureippbConsciencebppiWhen we learn how an infant in the wombbrSleeps precisely in a parent's poseippisay with fist closedbrpillowing the templeippiWhat will becomebrof the poemippA collection of poems that takes its form from the text message necessarily raises similar questions about attention, and attendant questions about empathy. Each poem in Fady Joud