{"product_id":"shrapnel-maps-9781556595639","title":"Shrapnel Maps","description":"Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel\/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres' fourth book of poems, \u003cem\u003eShrapnel Maps, \u003c\/em\u003e is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography through palimpsest and erasure. A wedding in Toura, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, uneasy interactions between Arab and Jewish neighbors in University Heights, the expulsion of Palestinians in Jaffa, another bombing in Gaza: \u003cem\u003eShrapnel Maps\u003c\/em\u003e traces the hurt and tender places, where political noise turns into the voices of Palestinians and Israelis. Working with documentary flyers, vintage postcards, travelogues, cartographic language, and first person testimonies, \u003cem\u003eShrapnel Maps\u003c\/em\u003e ranges from monologue sonnets to prose vignettes, polyphonics to blackouts, indices to simultaneities, as Palestinians and Israelis long for justice and peace, for understanding and survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Metres is the author and translator of eleven books and chapbooks, including \u003cem\u003eThe Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Michigan 2018); \u003cem\u003ePictures at an Exhibition\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Akron 2016); \u003cem\u003eSand Opera\u003c\/em\u003e (Alice James 2015); and \u003cem\u003eI Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky\u003c\/em\u003e (Cleveland State Poetry Center, 2015). Recipient of two NEA fellowships, the Lannan Fellowship, and, two Arab American Book Awards, he is a professor of English and the director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Program at John Carroll University in Cleveland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725476630802,"sku":"9781556595639","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c8481fb5-5c07-4148-82b1-7423095c76df.jpg?v=1734830864","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shrapnel-maps-9781556595639","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}