Bøger af Philip Metres

"A collection of poems by Philip Metres"--

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.

Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Shrapnel Maps is at once elegiac and activist.

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.

"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 poems that explore the nuances of being an outsider in a language." - Maura Stanton"