| Scholarship and Reviews |
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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.) Selected Book ReviewsReview of The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish. Jacket 35: March 2008. Online. "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 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 |
