Sand opera / Philip Metres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metres, Philip, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political poetry, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (115 p.)

Place of Publication:

Farmington, Maine : Alice James Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Sand Opera emerges from the dizzying position of being named but unheard as an Arab American, and out of the parallel sense of seeing Arabs named and silenced since 9/11. Polyvocal poems, arias, and redacted text speak for the unheard. Metres exposes our common humanity, while investigating the dehumanizing perils of war and its lasting effect on our culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Note to the Reader; Contents; Also by Philip Metres; Acknowledgments; Illumination of the Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew; I. abu ghraib arias; The Blues of Lane McCotter; (echo /ex/): ""In the name of God...""; Searching the Koran (Standard Operating Procedure); (echo /ex/): ""In the beginning. . . ""; The Blues of Javal Davis; (echo /ex/): ""next day...""; Public Address/Ghost Soldiers; (echo /ex/): ""his name is G. . . ""; The Blues of Charles Graner; (echo /ex/): ""On the third day. . . ""; Handling the Koran (Standard Operating Procedure)

(echo /ex/): ""First the man. . . ""Document Exploitation (Standard Operating Procedure); (echo /ex/): ""Now these are the generations. . . ""; The Blues of Lynddie England; (echo /ex/): ""me. . .""; The Blues of Ken Davis; (echo /ex/): ""Now I am. . .""; MUSLIM BURIAL (Standard Operating Procedure); (echo /ex/): ""And it came to pass...""; The Blues of Joe Darby; (echo /ex/); II. first recitative; Woman Mourning Son; Recipe from the Abbasid; Home Sweet Home; The Iraqi Curator's PowerPoint; Black Site (Exhibit Q); Asymmetries; Salaam Epigrams; War Stories; III. hung lyres

""The new theory: not to praise too much. . . """"When the bombs fell, she could barely raise...""; ""you mute you without openings..."" ; ""Is the ear. . . ""; ""In the cell of else. . . ""; ""this is the air we script to lips. . . ""; ""I had no names to blazon their tender...""; ""She asks: is that man crying. . . ""; ""What does it mean, I say. . . ""; IV. second recitative; Breathing Together; Testimony (after Daniel Heyman); When I Was a Child, I Lived as a Child, I Said to My Dad; Black Site (Exhibit I); Love Potion #42; Saddam's Fingerprints; Etruscan Cista Handle

Black Site (Exhibit M)A Toast (for Nawal Nasrallah); Cell/(ph)one (A simultaneity in four voices); V. homefront/removes; ""I hear it, at times, even in the wind.""; ""was taken was rapidly. . . ; ""What consequence is a body.""; ""tried hanging myself. . . "" ; ""I was planning my lesson on imagery. . . ""; ""taken to outside court. . . ""; ""In the wake of.""; ""I suspended upside. . . ""; ""you look at me / looking at you.""; ""so I could pass the time. . . "" ; ""As if, somehow, I were responsible. .. ""; ; ""On the flight overseas. . . ""; ""i did not know my. . . ""

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Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781938584237

1938584236