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  • Sand Opera

    by Philip Metres ...
    Philip Metres has published over 300 poems and translations in many journals and anthologies during his career, potential for a vast audience.Metres is a winner of over 40 awards, honors, scholarships, including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (2001, 2013) and six consecutive Pushcart Prize nominations from 2009-2014.Has authored or co-authored 13 previous collections, anthologies, ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sound of Listening

    Poetry as Refuge and Resistance

    by Philip Metres ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    Philip Metres stakes a claim for the cultural work that poems can perform—from providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering silenced voices to building a more just world, in communities of solitude and solidarity. Gathering a decade of his writing on poetry, he widens our sense of poetry as a way of being in the world, proposing that poems can offer a permeability to marginalized ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Dispatches from the Land of Erasure

    Essays and Conversations

    by Philip Metres ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    Drawn from a decade of writing and conversations by Arab American poet and writer Philip Metres, Dispatches from the Land of Erasure redefines the writer’s role as a catalyst for justice and a resister of empire. Gathering together a wide range of writing and writers, particularly from Arab and Black diaspora, Dispatches reports on what white imperial culture attempts to erase, while uplifting the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Shrapnel Maps

    by Philip Metres ...
    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 ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Pictures at an Exhibition

    A Petersburg Album

    by Philip Metres ...
    Wrestling with the questions of travel, memory, and perception, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album is, at its core, an unrequited love song to St. Petersburg. The fever dream of Peter the Great, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Akhmatova, St. Petersburg is the occasion for a broader meditation on all we come to love and lose. Pictures began as a journal notebook in 2002, as the poet ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fugitive/Refuge

    by Philip Metres ...
    Dynamically pairing traditional and experimental forms, Philip Metres traces ancient and modern migrations in an investigation of the ever-shifting idea of home.In Fugitive/Refuge, Philip Metres follows the journey of his refugee ancestors—from Lebanon to Mexico to the United States—in a vivid exploration of what it means to long for home. A book-length qasida, the collection draws on both ancient ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Beyond Ourselves

    Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser

    by Daniel Borzutzky, Susan Briante, Stacy Hardy, Erika Meitner, Philip Metres, Jena Osman, Deborah Paredez, Khadijah Queen, Solmaz Sharif, Nomi Stone ...
    Muriel Rukeyser has many faces: poet, biographer, theorist, playwright, novelist, story-writer, filmmaker, translator, ethnographer, and innovator of social, documentary poetics; feminist, queer, Jewish, single mother, and social justice activist. Yet above all, she was a poet. Threaded through her work, politics, and life was the conviction that poetry is an animating force that connects people ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Sign & Breath

    by Christal Brown, Dante DiStefano, Michael Waters, Bruce Bond, Shara McCallum, Tim Seibles, Claire Bateman, Dominique Christina, Rita Banerjee, Bianca Stone, Nell-Lynn Perera, D. M. Aderibigbe, William Heyen, Diana Whitney, Kristina Marie Darling, Cynthia Hogue, Arthur Sza, Christine Gelineau, H.L. Hix, Colum McCann, Haleh Liza Gafori, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Shin Yu Pai, Ru Freeman, Felice Belle, Alycia D. Jenkins, Jerome Rothenberg, Fred D'Aguiar, Diane Raptosh, Sheryl St. Germain, Bruce Smith, Jeff Talarigo, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Lynn Kozak, Carolyn Finney, Remica Bingham-Risher, Carol Moldaw, Steven Reese, Nin Andrews, Jeff Diteman, Angelique Palmer, Philip Metres, Damon Honeycutt, Tanure Ojaide, Morowa Yejide, Kazim Ali, Rashidah Ismaili Abu-Baker ...
    Sign & Breath is a new critical anthology that takes a different approach to exploring these questions: What is poetry? What defines voice? Featuring a range of contemporary artists, many of whom work across different mediums and genres, Sign & Breath introduces the reader to one page that sings in any genre – prose, fiction, poetry, spoken word, hybrid forms, and song – across diverse traditions. ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • A Sense of Regard

    Essays on Poetry and Race

    by Martha Collins, Tony Hoagland, Randall Horton, Major Jackson, Timothy Liu, Kazim Ali, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Lucy Biederman, Jaswinder Bolina, Rafael Campo, Ken Chen, Travis Hedge Coke, Joanna Penn Cooper, Adebe DeRango-Adem, Paula Hayes, Garrett Hongo, Ailish Hopper, Leigh Johnson, Patrick S. Lawrence, Matthew Lippman, Charles H. Lynch, Philip Metres, Mihaela Moscaliuc, David Mura, Sara Marie Ortiz, Jason Schneiderman, Ravi Shankar, Tess Taylor, Timothy Leyrson, Dr. Gerald Maa, Camille T. Dungy ...
    A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

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    60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

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  • Theorizing Sound Writing

    by Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, ... Read more

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  • Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth

    by Warsan Shire ...
    Series series mouthmark series
    What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El ... Read more

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