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Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 216 pages, aukštis x plotis: 216x137 mm, weight: 287 g
  • Serija: Poets on Poetry
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Sep-2018
  • Leidėjas: The University of Michigan Press
  • ISBN-10: 0472037285
  • ISBN-13: 9780472037285
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 216 pages, aukštis x plotis: 216x137 mm, weight: 287 g
  • Serija: Poets on Poetry
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Sep-2018
  • Leidėjas: The University of Michigan Press
  • ISBN-10: 0472037285
  • ISBN-13: 9780472037285
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"This book attempts to provide a context for a poetics of resistance and refuge that predates the Trump Age and will be necessary long after it. In order to survive such moments, we need to glean the present and past for what might sustain us for the work ahead. The Sound of Listening gathers ten years of essays on poetry and builds on Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront, since 1941 (2007), staking a claim for the cultural work that a poem can perform--from providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering silenced voices to imagining and modeling a more just and peaceful world. Rather than delivering judgments of poetic taste, these essays are experiments in questioning and performances of possibility, an attempt towiden my own (and the reader's) listening and seeing. These essays ask: What if X were poetry? And if poetry were Y? I seek to claim spaces for both "tactical poetry" and "strategic poetry," as Thomas McGrath once termed them. For McGrath, tactical poemsare often ephemeral works keyed to immediate events "without falling into political slogans," while strategic poems expand consciousness, untethered to a specific cultural or political moment--yet nonetheless invite us to change.3 While some essays in The Sound of Listening further explore the intersections between poetry and resistance, others inquire into movements in contemporary poetry that draw upon the world (documentary poetics), or literally draw on the world (lang/scape poetry, installation poetry) or draw us out into the world (translation, Arab American poetry, cosmopoetics, etc.)"--

Philip Metres’s essays demonstrate the necessity of poetry in uncertain times



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.

Recenzijos

"In his deeply engaging The Sound of Listening, Philip Metres, one of the essential poets of our time, demonstrates the critical acumen that has made his poetry so attuned to our zeitgeist. Metres's essays exhibit an exhilarating range, from avant-garde installation art to pop songs, from the highbrow aesthetics of Modernism to the primal joy of memorizing poems. Generous in its listening and committed to justice and beauty and to the beauty of justice, this is a wonderfully learned and instructive book." Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville and MacArthur recipient "This is the critical collection we need today, as weve needed it every dayone that points to a lineage of poetry political, committed, alive. To listen to these poetsAdrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Khaled Mattawa, Mohja Kahf, and onthrough Metres is to hear a practice of compassion and righteousness that is exemplary. I leave reading these essays and conversations as I often leave reading Phil Metress astonishing work: emboldened and awake to the possibilities of poetry as communal, as documentary, as song, as refuge and, yes, resistance." Solmaz Sharif, author of LOOK (2016) "In his essential new book, The Sound of Listening, Philip Metres explores a number of different orientations of the poetpoet as alternative historian, detective, philosopher, documentarian, shaman. Drawing on everyone from Karl Marx to Mos Def, Kahlil Gibran to Peter Gabriel, Enheduanna to Edward Said, Metres accomplishes that most difficult task: a book about poetry that actually captures its rich multiplicity, opening outward into a more rigorously, compassionately imagined poetic future." Kaveh Akbar, author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (2017) "This anthology is an admirable addition to ... Michigans distinguished 'Poets on Poetry' series." --World Literature Today * World Literature Today * Winner: Arab American National Museum (AANM) Arab American Book Awards 2019 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award * AANM Arab American Book Awards Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award *

Philip Metres is the author of nine books of poems, translation, and criticism. The recipient of a Lannan Fellowship, two Arab American Book Awards, and the Cleveland Arts Prize, among other honors, he is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

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