Philip Metres

Fugitive/Refuge

Dynamically pairing traditional and experimental forms, Philip Metres traces ancient and modern migrations in an investigation of the ever-shifting id...

Primer for Non-native Speakers

"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 n...

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Behind the Lines

War Resistance Poetry on the American Home Front Since 1941

Whether Thersites in Homer’s Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen Ginsberg in “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” poets have long giv...

Shrapnel Maps

Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac ...

Sand Opera

Using techniques of erasure, Metres seeks rhythm or language within the spare, bleak testimonies of those tortured at Abu Ghraib....

To See the Earth

Comprehensive collection of Atkins's work including 100+ poems, two poetry dramas, a manifesto, and a foreword by Janice A. Lowe. --...

Pictures at an Exhibition

A Petersburg Album

Wrestling with the questions of travel, memory, and perception, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album is, at its core, an unrequited love song...

Presence

: a Journal of Catholic Poetry

New poems, translations, interviews, and book reviews in a yearly literary journal for Catholic Poetry....

Ode to Oil

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Abu Ghrabi Arias

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Dispatches from the Land of Erasure

Essays and Conversations

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