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Philip Metres

Philip Metres is the author of Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, forthcoming 2020), The Sound of Listening (2018), Sand Opera (2015), and other books. A two-time recipient of the NEA and Arab American Book Award, he is Professor of English at John Carroll University.

Skyping My Mother

Your fin-quick gaze now swims into view, ex-convent eyes long uncloistered: a mother’s face is a lifetime of faces, voluminously lined and luminous, now distracted by this real time letter. Each flourish of your hand blurs its swish, the back …

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