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Dispatches from the Land of Erasure: Essays and Conversations

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure: Essays and Conversations

Metres, Philip

Paperback

Series: Poets on Poetry

Letters & EssaysPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0472039997
ISBN13: 9780472039999
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
Drawn from a decade of writing and conversations by Arab American poet and writer Philip Metres, Dispatches from the Land of Erasure redefines the writer's role as a catalyst for justice and a resister of empire. Gathering together a wide range of writing and writers, particularly from Arab and Black diaspora, Dispatches reports on what white imperial culture attempts to erase, while uplifting the voices and people who resist that erasure, offering a vision of a more just and peaceful world.

With keen insight into the lived experience of Arab Americans and other historically marginalized communities, the book explores the struggle for a just peace through reading Palestinian Arab and Israeli Jewish writers of conscience who contend with the wall of silence around the issue of Palestine. Further, Dispatches illuminates how to write a poetry of peace and justice, and how poetic activism and activist poets situate themselves in communities seeking change. Divided into four sections--Erasing the Erasures: Writing While Arab, On Palestine, The Poetics of Justice, and The Poetics of Peacebuilding--Dispatches weaves personal essays, cultural criticism, group chats, interviews, literary analysis, reviews, and roundtables that include luminaries like Mosab Abu Toha, Hayan Charara, Sahar Khalifeh, Marwa Helal, Erika Meitner, Naomi Shihab Nye, Craig Santos Perez, and M. NourbeSe Philip. Together, the book models the crucial need for robust dialogue to overcome the echo chamber that limits the growth and reach of social movements and to dream of a future beyond the land of erasure.

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