The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance

by Philip Metres

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 noise and despair...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472037285
• ISBN13: 9780472037285
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"