The sound of listening : poetry as refuge and resistance / Philip Metres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metres, Philip, 1970-

Series:

Poets on poetry.

Poets on poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and literature.

Politics in literature.

Political poetry--History and criticism.

Political poetry.

Protest poetry--History and criticism.

Protest poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Poetry as refuge and resistance

From the PEN Ten interview with Randa Jarrar

From "At the Borders of Our Tongue" : a dialogue with Fady Joudah

Parsing Arias : a dialogue through "Abu Ghraib Arias" with Micah Cavaleri.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on information from publisher.

Contains:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), issuing body, publisher.

ISBN:

9780472124213

0472124218

OCLC:

1049934957