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An interview with Kshama Sawant, City Council member of Seattle, Washington, first in the US to pass a resolution in favor of the TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccines. ....
Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020). Even though the Lebanese American poet and academic has been writing about U.S. folly abroad since the Gulf War and even theorized about war resistance verse in a critical work in 2007, says Purushothaman, Metres has little time for pat poems that turn on simple conflicts like Us vs Them, and isn t interested in resistance literature. More: For much of his career, Metres has focused on American wars in the Arab world. In Shrapnel Maps, his new collection of poems from Copper Canyon Press, he shifts his terrain to Palestine-Israel. Drawing on disparate sources, including 1948 memorabilia, maps and texts from centuries earlier, and testimonies of refugees, activists, and suicide bombers, Metres orchestrates a grand conversation of voices and perspectives across three nations. The book is broken into ten sections, resembling a binder containing a war correspondent’s notes. At a climactic moment, Metres turns “shrapne ....