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Philip Metres has been written by a number of books, including Sand Opera (2015) and the forthcoming The Sound of Listening: The Poetry of Refuge and Resistance (2018). He is a professor of English and the Director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.
Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.
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