Shrapnel Maps

by Philip Metres

Book Overview

Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres' fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography through palimpsest and erasure. A wedding in Toura, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, uneasy interactions between Arab and Jewish neighbors in University Heights, the expulsion of Palestinians in Jaffa, another bombing in Gaza: Shrapnel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556595638
• ISBN13: 9781556595639
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"