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Watson Fellowship —93 , he began to translate contemporary Russian poetry, and he has since published numerous translations of the poetry of Sergey Gandlevsky and Lev Rubinstein. After Metres received a B. English , M.
English at Indiana University at Bloomington. He is currently a professor of English at John Carroll University.
Metres blogs frequently and teaches issues related to nonviolent resistance to war and racism in the United States, Middle East, and Northern Ireland. Metres currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife, the award-winning writer Amy Breau, and their two daughters.
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Philip Metres. The poem draws upon a number of sources: a Standard Operating Procedure manual for Camp Echo at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, the testimony of Abu Ghraib torture victims, the words of U.
Philip Metres has written a number of books, most recently the chapbook abu ghraib arias and To See the Earth. Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father.
Until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. As soon as Nuri sees her, the rest of the world vanishes. And their happiness consumes Nuri to the point where he wishes his father would disappear. Nuri will, however, soon regret what he wished for.
His father, long a dissident in exile from his homeland, is taken under mysterious circumstances.
And, as the world that Nuri and his stepmother share is shattered by events beyond their control, they begin to realize how little they knew about the man they both loved. Anatomy of a Disappearance is written with all the emotional precision and intimacy that have won Hisham Matar tremendous international recognition.
In a voice that is delicately wrought and beautifully tender, he asks: When a loved one disappears, how does their absence shape the lives of those who are left? It has been translated into 26 languages. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance , has just been published. Within the spectrum of American literary traditions, Arab American literature is relatively new.
Writing produced by Americans of Arab origin is mainly a product of the twentieth century and only started to flourish in the past thirty years. While this young but thriving literature varies widely in content and style, it emerges from a common community and within a specific historical, political, and cultural context.
We're dizzy in every departure, limb-lost.
The infant dream for long. We lift the blinds, look out into ink For light. My God, my God, open the spine binding our sight.
Were it not for Ellis Island, his last name would be Abourjaili. See www.