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Jan/Feb 2019 • Vol. XLI No. 1 • Poetry |

Isdoud (for Fady Joudah)

By Philip Metres

dear descendant
of the dis
appeared you ascend

the pillar
of your own air
spin & span

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Philip Metres has written twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and Sand Opera (Alice James Books, 2015). Winner of Guggenheim and Lannan fellowships and three Arab American Book Awards, he is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Program at John Carroll University. He believes a just peace for Palestine and Israel is possible and requires our participation.

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too soon, and too soon for this old ache of longing and hunger and ruin that is this flesh, the I wantingto holdout a little longer, in silvermist and new […]

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