Shrapnel Maps by Metres, Philip

Shrapnel Maps (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556595639)

Vendor: Philip Metres
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Format: Paperback
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Shrapnel Maps by Metres, Philip

Shrapnel Maps

$20.00
Shrapnel Maps by Metres, Philip

Shrapnel Maps

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres' fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography through palimpsest and erasure. A wedding in Toura, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, uneasy interactions between Arab and Jewish neighbors in University Heights, the expulsion of Palestinians in Jaffa, another bombing in Gaza: Shrapnel Maps traces the hurt and tender places, where political noise turns into the voices of Palestinians and Israelis. Working with documentary flyers, vintage postcards, travelogues, cartographic language, and first person testimonies, Shrapnel Maps ranges from monologue sonnets to prose vignettes, polyphonics to blackouts, indices to simultaneities, as Palestinians and Israelis long for justice and peace, for understanding and survival.

Author: Philip Metres
ISBN-10: 1556595638
ISBN-13: 9781556595639
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2020
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2020 pg. 94
By Philip Metres
By Philip Metres
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Philip Metres is the author and translator of eleven books and chapbooks, including The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan 2018); Pictures at an Exhibition (University of Akron 2016); Sand Opera (Alice James 2015); and I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (Cleveland State Poetry Center, 2015). Recipient of two NEA fellowships, the Lannan Fellowship, and, two Arab American Book Awards, he is a professor of English and the director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Program at John Carroll University in Cleveland.

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