Webb19 sep. 2024 · Philip Metres has written ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon 2024), Sand Opera, and The Sound of Listening.Awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Fellowship, three Arab American Book Awards, and two NEAs, he is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at … WebbPhilip Metres, Sand Opera. Farmingtori, ME: Alice James Books, 2015. 109pp. $16.95 The title of Philip Metres's second full-length collection, Sand Opera, is an erasure of the term "Standard Operating Procedure." The book takes as its central premise the idea that the War on Terror, a war of water-boarding
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Webb"Cell/(ph)one (A simultaneity in four voices)" by Philip Metres, from SAND OPERA (Alice James Books, 2015), read by Melissa Crowe, Luke Hankins, Nomi Stone, ... Webb5 jan. 2015 · 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 howl and hide supply
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Webb13 jan. 2015 · Sand Opera by Philip Metres, Jan 13, 2015, Alice James Books edition, paperback. It looks like you're offline. Donate ♥. Čeština (cs) Deutsch (de) English ... Sand Opera × Close. An edition of ... Webb28 feb. 2015 · Philip Metres chose poetry. The English professor at the Jesuit-run John Carroll University in the United States released his latest book of poetry, “Sand Opera,” earlier this year. The book began as a Lenten practice, in which he read and meditated on torture testimonies from Abu Ghraib prison. Webb17 maj 2024 · Philip Metres was born July 4th, 1970 in San Diego, ... which is what I was doing in Sand Opera, particularly for those Iraqis who were abused by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison, or taken to secret prisons around the world, or simply harmed or exiled by wars. I can’t make my fellow citizens listen, ... howland hill giant