Philip Metres
January 2015
978-1-938584-09-1
$16.95
Sand Opera emerges from the dizzying position of being named but unheard as an Arab American, and out of the parallel sense of seeing Arabs named and silenced since 9/11. Polyvocal poems, arias, and redacted text speak for the unheard. Metres exposes our common humanity while investigating the dehumanizing perils of war and its lasting effect on our culture.