In this Book
- The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Poets on Poetry
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Essays and Portraits (I)
- Khalil Gibran: Local Boy Made Good
- pp. 57-62
- Essays and Portraits (II)
- Against a Cloistered Virtue: Poems for Peace
- pp. 146-165
- By Heart: On Memorizing Poems
- pp. 189-193
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2018