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Zong! is a problem, a provocation, a persistence on the edge of an abyss. Fifteen years after its original publication, Zong! has been republished by Graywolf Press, with a new prefa…
Philip Metres
September 12, 2024
Interior of Arbatskaya subway station in Moscow, Russia A woman sweeping the Moscow metro with a twig broom, a violinist playing a Beatles tune, and Chekhov: Philip Metres reflects on his time on…
June 28, 2021Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate a single book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with…
Bobby Sands mural on gable wall of Sinn Fein offices on Falls Road, Belfast./ Photo by Shermozle / Wikimedia What is it about the revolutionary that draws our fascinated attention? Whether one ca…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2020. 94 pages. PHILIP METRES’S SHRAPNEL MAPS is an impressive work of listening, learning, and journeying into the trauma of…
Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2018. 216 pages. As director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, Philip Metres might be expected to champion political…
An overgrown yard at a factory where statues of Lenin and other Soviet leaders used to be made. Photo: Philip Metres In the Den of the Voice” is part of The More You Love the Motherland,…
