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Gathering a decade of writing on poetry, Philip Metres 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.

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Philip Metres's poetry speaks to us all, in ways critical, vital, profound, and brilliant."" - Lawrence Joseph

""Milosz talks about books that can save nations. Sand Opera is just such a book."" - Sean Thomas Dougherty

The Sound of Listening Poetry as Refuge and

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    Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
    Publication Date: 30/09/2018
    ISBN13: 9780472037285, 978-0472037285
    ISBN10: 0472037285
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Gathering a decade of writing on poetry, Philip Metres 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.

    Trade Review
    Philip Metres's poetry speaks to us all, in ways critical, vital, profound, and brilliant."" - Lawrence Joseph

    ""Milosz talks about books that can save nations. Sand Opera is just such a book."" - Sean Thomas Dougherty

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