Granny Cloud

Farnoosh Fathi’s poetry has been admired for its ＂riot of associations and sonic improvisations＂ (Christine Hume, Boston Review); its commitment to fathoming language as what it is--an unfathomable depth. Granny Cloud, Fathi’s second book of poems, showcases her gifts both in short works of prodigious concentration and in a long poem, ＂Anyone’s Don’tanelle,＂ composed of the drafts and do-overs that led to ＂Fontanelle＂--a wild reimagining of the dispirited court tumbler said to have inspired St. Francis’s ＂Jugglers of God.＂ Granny Cloud is a portrait of ecstatic decisions and revisions, constantly reversed, constantly renewed.

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns (Canarium, 2013), the editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (NYRB, 2018), and the founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She lives and teaches in New York.