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The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance

Philip Metres 2018
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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.
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Series
  • Poets on Poetry
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-03728-5 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-12421-3 (ebook)
Subject
  • Literary Studies:Poetry and Poetry Criticism
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Dialogue (I)
  • Essays and Portraits (I)
    • Beyond Grief and Grievance
    • “The School among the Ruins”
    • Carrying Continents in Our Eyes
    • Khalil Gibran
    • (More) News from Poems
    • “We Build a World”
  • Dialogue (II)
  • Essays and Portraits (II)
    • Lang/scapes
    • Installing Lev Rubinstein’s “Farther and Farther On”
    • Against a Cloistered Virtue
    • Erotic Soyuz
    • Homing In: The Place of Poetry in the Global Digital Age
    • By Heart: On Memorizing Poems
  • Dialogue (III)
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