The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance Contributor(s): Metres, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472037285 ISBN-13: 9780472037285 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern |
Dewey: 809.1 |
LCCN: 2018016989 |
Series: Poets on Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 216 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 voices and a shelter from the imperial noise and despair that can silence us. The Sound of Listening ranges between expansive surveys of the poetry of 9/11, Arab American poetry, documentary poetry, landscape poetry, installation poetry, and peace poetry; personal explorations of poets such as Adrienne Rich, Khalil Gibran, Lev Rubinstein, and Arseny Tarkovsky; and intimate dialogues with Randa Jarrar, Fady Joudah, and Micah Cavaleri, that illuminate Metres's practice of listening in his 2015 work, Sand Opera. |