Sand Opera Metres PhilipPaperback
Sand Opera Metres PhilipPaperback Sand Opera is what political poetry must be like today in our age of seemingly permanent war.--Mark NowakSand Opera emerges from the dizzying position of being named…
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Sand Opera Metres PhilipPaperback
Sand Opera is what political poetry must be like today in our age of seemingly permanent war.--Mark NowakSand 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. 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. Polyvocal poems, arias, and redacted text speak for the unheard.
She lay down & the armies retreated, never showing their backs. She teetered on the highwire of herself. When she unlatched from the breast, the planes took off