Visit Palestine (Weird Apparition)
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Philip Metres
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Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (forthcoming 2020), The Sound of Listening (essays, 2018), Sand Opera (poems, 2015), Pictures at an Exhibition (poems, 2016), I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (translations 2015), and others. His work has garnered a Lannan fellowship, two NEAs, six Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Hunt Prize, the Beatrice Hawley Award, two Arab American Book Awards, the Watson Fellowship, the Creative Workforce Fellowship, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. http://www.philipmetres.com
About the work: “The two poems are from a poetic sequence to be published in chapbook form by Diode Editions in 2019 as Returning to Jaffa. The sequence is a docupoetic inquiry into the mystery of what happened to Palestine’s most populous city and its municipal archives during the Nakba in 1948. Working with vintage postcards, Haganah leaflets, and personal photographs, Returning to Jaffa tells the story of one former resident of Jaffa, Nahida Halaby Gordon, a Palestinian who fled her native land during 1948, and who periodically returns to visit her childhood home confiscated by Israel after the war. This sequence will also be part of Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon 2020). The index on the postcard is from Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad.”
About the work: “The two poems are from a poetic sequence to be published in chapbook form by Diode Editions in 2019 as Returning to Jaffa. The sequence is a docupoetic inquiry into the mystery of what happened to Palestine’s most populous city and its municipal archives during the Nakba in 1948. Working with vintage postcards, Haganah leaflets, and personal photographs, Returning to Jaffa tells the story of one former resident of Jaffa, Nahida Halaby Gordon, a Palestinian who fled her native land during 1948, and who periodically returns to visit her childhood home confiscated by Israel after the war. This sequence will also be part of Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon 2020). The index on the postcard is from Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad.”
