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" Sand * Opera*** is what political poetry must be like today in our age of seemingly permanent war."—Mark Nowak 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. *Philip Metres exposes our common humanity while investigating the dehumanizing perils of war and its lasting effect on our culture. From "Hung Lyres": @ When the bombs fell, she could barely raise her pendulous head, wept shrapnel until her mother capped the fire with her breast. She teetered on the highwire of herself. She lay down & the armies retreated, never showing their backs. When she unlatched from the breast, the planes took off again. *Stubborn stars refused to fall . . . * *Philip * Metres has written a number of books and chapbooks, most recently A Concordance of Leaves (Diode, 2013), abu ghraib arias (Flying Guillotine, 2011), To See the Earth (Cleveland State, 2008), and Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront Since 1941 (University of Iowa, 2007). His work has appeared widely

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Author

Philip Metres

Publisher

Alice James Books

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781938584237

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.52 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14