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Books by Philip Metres
  | | To See the Earth(1st Edition) (Imagination) by Contributor Philip Metres Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2008 by Cleveland State U Poetry Center ISBN-13: 978-1-880834-81-7, ISBN: 1-880834-81-2 "Poetry. "'Do our voyages,' Auden once asked, 'still promise the Juster Life?' Too many of us would answer this question in negative--not so Philip Metres. His poems seek above all to traverse borders, not merely those between nations and cultures but also--and most importantly--between the personal and the political. With a sure command of craft, which he displays in abundance, Metres plays for high stakes. TO SEE THE EARTH is a debut o ..." |
 | | Primer for Non-Native Speakers (Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, Ser. 3, No. 6) by Contributor Philip Metres Paperback, 28 Pages, Published 2003 by Kent State Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87338-804-7, ISBN: 0-87338-804-6 ""After reading Primer for Non-Native Speakers, I feel like I've just come back from a trip to Russia. Philip Metres's brilliantly compressed lyrical narratives capture the grandeur and the bleakness of an almost mythological country, where a bronze statue of the great poet Pushkin now gazes out on the golden arches, and the swear of a slammed door is more expressive than a mouthful of words. These are subtle, accomplished, shimmering po ..." |
 | | Shrapnel Maps by Philip Metres Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 2020 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-563-9, ISBN: 1-55659-563-8 "Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Shrapnel Maps is at once elegiac and activist." |
 | | The Sound of Listening Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (Poets On Poetry) by Philip Metres Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-03728-5, ISBN: 0-472-03728-5 " 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 nois ..." |
 | | 2019 WLA Folios Home by Philip Metres, Jesse Goolsby, Nović Sara Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2019 by William Newmiller ISBN-13: 978-0-578-49739-6, ISBN: 0-578-49739-5 "Published every year in the spring, WLA Folios is a themed issue which complements and magnifies the annual journal while staking out new ground. For 2019, the focus of WLA Folios is the home. Twelve distinguished contributors were asked to consider the body and its many manifestations, voices, reflections, corruptions, memories, and aspirations." |
 | | Come Together(1st Edition) Imagine Peace: Poems (Harmony Anthology Series) by Ann Smith, Philip Metres, Larry Smith, Denise Levertov, Sam Hamill, William Stafford, Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Muriel Rukeyser, Contributor-Carolyn Forch, Bottom Dog Press Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Bottom Dog Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933964-22-5, ISBN: 1-933964-22-7 "100 poets voice their concern and vision for peace. Poems of Witness & Elegy, Exhortation & Action, Reconciliation, Shared Humanity,Wildness & Home, Ritual & Vigil,Meditation & Prayer. Precedents: Sappho, Whitman, Dickinson, Cavafy, Millay, Patchen, Rexroth, Shapiro,Lowell, Creeley, Rukeyser, Ginsberg, Levertov, Lorde, Stafford, Jordan, Amichai, DarwishContemporaries: Abinader, Ali, Bass, Berry, Bauer, Berrigan, Bly, Bodhr�n, Bradley, B ..." |
 | | A Kindred Orphanhood Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (In the Grip of Strange Thoughts) (English and Russian Edition) by Sergey Gandlevsky, Contributor Philip Metres, Philip Metres Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2003 by Zephyr Press ISBN-13: 978-0-939010-75-2, ISBN: 0-939010-75-5 "Translated by Philip MetresAn integral member of the ’70s generation, Gandlevsky was one of the underground Russian poets who began by writing only for themselves and their circles of friends during the Brezhnev era. Despite their relative cultural obscurity—or perhaps, precisely because of their situation as internal émigrés—Gandlevsky and the Seventies Generation forged new directions in Russian poetry, unfettered by the pressures tha ..." |
 | | Behind the Lines(1st Edition) War Resistance Poetry on the American Home Front since 1941 (Contemp North American Poetry) by Philip Metres, Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, Adalaide Kirby Morris Hardcover, 298 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87745-998-9, ISBN: 0-87745-998-3 "Whether Thersites in Homer’s Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen Ginsberg in “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” poets have long given solitary voice against the brutality of war. The hasty cancellation of the 2003 White House symposium “Poetry and the American Voice” in the face of protests by Sam Hamill and other invited guests against the coming “shock and awe” campaign in Iraq reminded us that poetry and poets still have the ..." |
 | | Resist Much / Obey Little Inaugural Poems to the Resistance by Michael Boughn, Nathaniel Mackey, Margaret Randall, Ruben Medina, Philip Metres, Nita Noveno, Julie Patton, Michael Rothenberg, Chris Stroffolino, Anne Waldman, John Bradley, Marjorie Welish, Tyrone Williams, Brenda Cardenas, Kass Fleischer, Roberto Harrison, Kent Johnson, Andrew Levy, Ching-In Chen, Lynn Desilva-Johnson Paperback, 738 Pages, Published 2017 by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-944682-32-3, ISBN: 1-944682-32-5 "The Most Urgent Literary Anthology of the 21st Centurywe can’t build a wall. we can only spout pure water again and again and drown his lies. Eileen MylesRacism, xenophobia, misogyny and their related malaises are to the U.S. what whiskey is to an alcoholic. The current occupant of the White House won the election yipping, against possible recovery, “Drinks are on me!” The rich, multitudinous voices in this anthology variously ..." |
 | | I Burned at the Feast Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky by Arseny Tarkovsky, Philip Metres, Dimitri Psurtsev, Arseniĭ Tarkovskiĭ Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2015 by Cleveland State University Poetry Center ISBN-13: 978-0-9963167-0-5, ISBN: 0-9963167-0-1 "Poetry. Film. Translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev. "Tarkovsky now joins the ranks of Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Brodksky. Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev's translations succinct and allusive, stingingly direct and yet sweeping, mournful and celebratory are marvels." PEN/Heim citation "How does one translate the work of Russian classic, Arseny Tarkovsky? Imagine trying to translate Yeats: high style rhet ..." |
 | | Shrapnel Maps by Philip Metres 181 Pages, Published 2020 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-221-9, ISBN: 1-61932-221-8 "(My heart goes out to her, standing in the heart of another country.) e reason for the wall was that people were being ATTACKED, she says. BYTERRORISTS. After all, the Arabs sold the land, it was too much trouble. (I shrink back in my seat .) ..." |
 | | Returning To Jaffa by Philip Metres Paperback, Published 2019 by Diode Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-939728-25-8, ISBN: 1-939728-25-8 "Returning to Jaffa is a docupoetic inquiry into the mystery of what happened to Palestine's most populous city and its municipal archives during the Nakba in 1948. Working with vintage postcards, Haganah leaflets, and personal photographs, It tells the story of one former resident of Jaffa, Nahida Halaby Gordon, a Palestinian who fled her native land during 1948, and who periodically returns to visit her childhood home, confiscated by I ..." |
 | | A Concordance of Leaves On the Occasion of My Sister's Wedding in Palestine by Philip Metres 36 Pages, Published 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1-939728-04-3, ISBN: 1-939728-04-5 "A book of poems. Poetry." |
 | | A Concordance of Leaves by Philip Metres, Patty Paine, Law Alsobrook Paperback, 34 Pages, Published 2013 by Diode Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-939728-01-2, ISBN: 1-939728-01-0 "Winner of the Arab American National Museum's Poetry Prize "Philip Metres has created a miracle-a tender book so transporting it carries us deeply into the soul of Palestine as well as the love of a family-mysteries and blessings of language and haunted details-each tiny turn as huge as history and the next precious page of days." --Naomi Shihab Nye "A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spiri ..." |
 | | Abu Ghrabi Arias by Philip Metres Published 2012 by Independent Publisher ISBN-13: 978-1-4675-3299-0, ISBN: 1-4675-3299-1 |
 | | Ode to Oil by Philip Metres Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1-936715-01-5, ISBN: 1-936715-01-5 |
 | | Contemp North American Poetry Behind the Lines : War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 by Philip Metres 296 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-738-0, ISBN: 1-58729-738-8 "“the creation of poems [is] a foundation for true community: a fearless democratic society” (Muller 3). The Poetry for the People project became a crucible for Jordan's activism against the impending Gulf War, which led to a teach-in on the Persian Gulf crisis: “Faculty colleagues of many disciplines, and student activists of several ideologies, and of every color and ethnicity and sexual persuasion fixed their energies to create a ..." |
 | | Auto, Transit, and Cities(1st Edition) A Twentieth Century Fund Report by John Robert Meyer, John R. Meyer, Jr Meyer, Philip Metres Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 1981 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05485-1, ISBN: 0-674-05485-7 |
 | | Prison Etiquette(1st Edition) The Convict's Compendium of Useful Information by Dachine Rainer, Holley Cantine, Philip Metres, Lowell Naeve Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2001 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2375-3, ISBN: 0-8093-2375-3 "Of the fifty thousand Americans who declared themselves conscientious objectors during World War II, nearly six thousand went to prison, many serving multiyear sentences in federal lockups. Some conscientious objectors, notably Robert Lowell, William Everson, and William Stafford, went on to become important figures in the literary life of their country, while others were participants and teachers in the civil rights and antiwar movemen ..." |
 | | Sand Opera(Illustrated) by Contributor Philip Metres Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2015 by Alice James Books ISBN-13: 978-1-938584-09-1, ISBN: 1-938584-09-0 |
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