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Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2007. "Metres offers a strong riposte to cultural critics who dismiss poetry as monologic and ahistorical; it shows the abiding critical function of the genre by poets who have not only thematized the horrors of war but participated actively in its opposition. At a moment when narrative has become the generic default for cultural criticism, Behind the Lines restores poetry to its important function as a socially symbolic form."—Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego Articles"Remaking/Unmaking: Poetry and Abu Ghraib." PMLA. October 2008. "Vexing Resistance, Complicating Occupation: A Contrapuntal Reading of Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns and David Grossman's The Smile of the Lamb." College English. Forthcoming 2009. "Lang/scapes: Further Explorations of War Resistance Poetry." Big Bridge. 2008. "Poetry and the Peace Movement: Useable Pasts, Multiple Futures." Big Bridge. Vol. 3:4. 2007. online. http://www.bigbridge.org/fictpmetres.htm "Some Notes on Translating Arseny Tarkovsky's 'Field Hospital.'" Mosty: A Journal of Translators. 4 (8). 2005. 23-26 "Performing ‘Righteous Certainty': The Shifting Poetic Address of June Jordan's War Resistance Poetry." Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan. Lexington Books. 2004. "William Stafford's Down in My Heart: The Poetics of Pacifism and the Limits of Lyric." Peace and Change. January 2004. 1-28 "June Jordan's War against War." Peace Review. 15:2 June 2003. 171-177 "Confusing a Naïve Robert Lowell and Lowell Naeve: 'Lost Connections' in 1940s War Resistance at West Street and Danbury Prison." Contemporary Literature. Winter 2000. 661-692. (A selection of the essay posted on Cary Nelson's Modern American Poetry website.) Book ReviewsReview of The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish. Jacket 35: March 2008. Online. Review of We Begin Here: Poems for Lebanon and Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies. Forthcoming 2008. Review of World Jelly by Tony Tost. Behind the Lines. February 5, 2008. Review of Where No One Spoke the Language by Daniel Bourne. January 30, 2008. Review of Modern Life by Matthea Harvey. Behind the Lines. January 29, 2008. Review of The Development of Aerial Militarism and the Demobilization of European Ground Forces, Fortresses, and Naval Fleets by Paul Scheerbart. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007. Behind the Lines Poetry blog. January 23, 2008. "From Reznikoff to Public Enemy." Poetry Foundation website. November 2007. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=180213 "Reading levy in Cleveland." Jacket 34: Late Fall 2007. http://jacketmagazine.com/34/metres- levy.shtml Review of Corpse Watching by Sarith Peou. Behind the Lines blog. www.behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com. October 2007. http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/10/corpse-watching-by-sarith-peou.html Review of Language as Responsibility by Leonard Schwartz. Behind the Lines blog. www.behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com. October 2007. http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/10/leonard-schwartzs-language-as.html "The End(s) of Russian Poetry: An Interview with Dmitry Prigov." Behind the Lines blog. July 2007. http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/07/ends-of-russian-poetry-interview-with.html "From Vietnam to September 11th: An Interview with Robert Bly." Behind the Lines blog. June 2007. http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/06/this-is-interview-of-robert-bly-that-i.html Review of Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right by Timothy Brennan. American Book Review. 2007. "Generative Scholarship: The Past/and/Future of War Resistance Poetry." Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. 2007. Review of Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz by Kent Johnson. Pleiades. 2006. "Barrett Watten." Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry. 2005. Review of Nets by Jen Bervin. Jacket. 2004. Interested in having your new book of poems reviewed? Send a review copy to me at Philip Metres, Department of English, John Carroll University, 20700 N. Park Blvd, University Heights, OH 44118 |
