Philip Metres

"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. Metres exposes our common humanity, while investigating the dehumanizing perils of war and its lasting effect on our culture"--

Sand Opera

Nico lent me this. No rating for now. Incredibly moving and powerful.

Carmen

masterpiece of a witness project. incredible, piercing range, all while treading the relationship between erasure/poetic redaction & testimony. (locating solmaz’s look within the lineage of this book + roger reeves & coates as well, on what it means to raise children in a violent world) 

Sand Opera

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