Philip Metres is a poet, translator, and scholar and the author of numerous books, including the collections Sand Opera and Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and the nonfiction work The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance. He was awarded the Arab American Book Award and teaches literature as well as creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

From “Home/Front”

by Philip Metres

What consequence is a body. And if the eye were a lamp.
In the beginning there was a certain darkness, an uncertain
darkness after. I’m trying to piece together something

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