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To See the Earth
(2008)
  • Philip Metres, John Carroll University
Abstract

To See the Earth navigates the increasingly turbulent waters of a globalized world—from Moscow to Chicago, from Philadelphia to Ramallah. Metres renders in vivid language what Fredric Jameson called “cognitive mapping” —a kind of “situational representation on the part of the individual subject to the vaster and properly unrepresentable totality.”To See the Earth travels to Russia, memorializes immigrant Arab American family life in a Brooklyn brownstone, witnesses to the violence visited upon people both at home and abroad, and carves out of such losses images of hope —the birthing not of a terrible beauty, but of the “dreaming disarmed body.”

Disciplines
Publication Date
2008
Publisher
Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Series
Imagination Series
ISBN
9781880834817
Citation Information
Philip Metres. To See the Earth. Cleveland(2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/philip_metres/8/