"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. Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville and MacArthur recipient Generous in its listening and committed to justice and beauty and to the beauty of justice, this is a wonderfully learned and instructive book." 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.
"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. The Sound of Listening ranges between expansive surveys of the poetry of 9/11, Arab American poetry, documentary poetry, landscape poetry, installation poetry, and peace poetry personal explorations of poets such as Adrienne Rich, Khalil Gibran, Lev Rubinstein, and Arseny Tarkovsky and intimate dialogues with Randa Jarrar, Fady Joudah, and Micah Cavaleri, that illuminate Metres’s practice of listening in his 2015 work, Sand Opera. 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 noise and despair that can silence us. 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.
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