9.1 - A Conversation with Philip Metres prior to the publication of his "Shrapnel Maps" - a podcast by Cleveland Review of Books

9.1 -
On this Episode, CRB interviews Philip Metres, whose book "Shrapnel Maps" comes out on April 24. We jump off of J. David's review of the book(https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/2020/4/7/why-do-you-laugh-on-philip-metress-shrapnel-maps) and talk about the power of myth and story telling to bridge ideological divides, the politics of representation, and the ability of poetry to do what political theory and philosophy in creative/different, not necessarily better, ways.

Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon 2020). His other works include The Sound of Listening (essays), Pictures at an Exhibition (poems), the translation I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, and Sand Opera. His work has garnered fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as six Ohio Arts Council grants, the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, two Arab American Book Awards, the Watson Fellowship, the Lyric Poetry Award, the Alice James Award, the Creative Workforce Fellowship, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. Most recently, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.

Music Credit: a-Live of Muamin Collective

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