Description: Fugitive/ Refuge, Paperback by Metres, Philip, ISBN 1556596693, ISBN-13 9781556596698, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Dynamically pairing traditional and experimental forms, Philip Metres traces ancient and modern migrations in an investigation of the ever-shifting idea of home. In Fugitive/Refuge, Philip Metres follows the journey of his refugee ancestors—from Lebanon to Mexico to the United States—in a vivid exploration of what it means to long for home. A book-length qasida, the collection draws on both ancient traditions and innovative forms—odes and arabics, sonnets and cut-ups, prayers and documentary voicings, heroic couplets and homophonic translations—in order to confront the perils of our age: forced migration, climate change, and toxic nationalism. Fugitive/Refuge pronounces the urge both to remember the past and to forge new poetic forms and ways of being in language. In one section, Metres meditates on the Arabic greeting—ahlan wa sahlan—and asks how older forms of welcome might offer generous and embodied ways of responding to the challenges of mass migration and alienation in postmodern societies. In another, he dialogues with Dante to inform new ways of understanding ancestral and modern migrations and the injustices that have burdened them. Ultimately, Metres uses movement to create a new place—one to home and dream in—for all those who seek shelter.
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Book Title: Fugitive/Refuge
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Middle Eastern, Subjects & Themes / Family, American / General
Publication Year: 2024
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Philip Metres
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback