The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance

Backorder (temporarily out of stock)
4.9/5.0
21,000+ Reviews
Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world
Product Details
Price
$35.94
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Publish Date
Pages
216
Dimensions
5.4 X 0.6 X 8.4 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780472037285
BISAC Categories:

Earn by promoting books

Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.

Become an affiliate
About the Author
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. Photo credit: Jeremy Zipple
Reviews
"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 we've needed it every day--one that points to a lineage of poetry political, committed, alive. To listen to these poets--Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Khaled Mattawa, Mohja Kahf, and on--through 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 Metres's 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 poet--poet 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)
Winner, The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award 2019, Arab American Book Awards--Arab American Book Awards
"This anthology is an admirable addition to ... Michigan's distinguished 'Poets on Poetry' series."
--World Literature Today-- (01/07/2019)