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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Living Weapon 'is in
conversation with a vast cast of historic forebears who enliven
Phillips's examination of the meaning, morality and musicality of
poetry, his 'living weapon'. . . and he is an eloquent and
persuasive converser.' Kate Caoimhe Arthur, PN Review Living Weapon
is a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light homing in
on our political moment. A winged man plummets from the
troposphere, four police officers enter a phone store, concrete
pavements hang overhead. Phillips ruminates on violins and
violence, on hatred and pleasure, on turning forty-three, even on
the end of existence itself. His poetry reveals the limitations of
our vocabulary, showing that our platitudes are inadequate to the
brutal times we find ourselves in. And yet, through interrogation
of allegory and symbol, names and things, time and musicality, a
language of grace and urgency is found. For still our lives go on,
and these are poems of survival as much as indictment. Living
Weapon is a piercing, flaring collection from 'a virtuoso poetic
voice' (Granta).
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Silver (Main)
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
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A work that reminds us of the singular and glorious power of poetry
in our complex world. Silver is a collection that shines with a
guiding principle, that poetry: 'part physics, part faith, part
void', can be found wherever it is looked for. Virtuosic in style,
sharing the dexterity of the legendary Argentinian footballer,
Lionel Messi, who is conjured in its pages, the poems shape-shift
through blank verse, elegy, terza rima and rap. Phillips is
confident in his unconfidence: 'Not the meaning,' he writes, 'but
the meaningfulness of this mystery we call life'. The poems are
luminous and dreamlike in their evocations of time and place, held
in the light of a silvery moon that gives them their alluring
strangeness and vibrancy.
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Heaven (Paperback)
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
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In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet - and
Paris Review sports columnist - Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles
2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory,
and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity
in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year.
And like the year, it's divided into four seasons, each marked by a
final tournament: the Grand Slams. Phillips charts the year from
winter's Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal
renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fall's U.S. Open.
Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis,
one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless
tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver
movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of
upheaval within a broader cultural and social context. Tennis has
long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate
bauble of life. The Circuit will convince you that you don't leave
the world behind as you watch tennis - you bring it with you.
A masterful debut from a powerfully original poetic voice
A poignant and terse vision of New York City unfolds in Rowan
Ricardo Phillips's debut book of poetry. A work of rare beauty and
grace, "The Ground" is an entire world, drawn and revealed through
contemplation of the post-9/11 landscape. With musicality and
precision of thought, Phillips's poems limn the troubadour's
journey in an increasingly surreal modern world ("I plugged my poem
into a manhole cover / That flamed into the first guitar"). The
origin of mankind, the origin of the self, the self's development
in the sensuous world, and--in both a literal and a figurative
sense--the end of all things sing through Phillips's supple and
idiosyncratic poems. The poet's subtle formal
sophistication--somewhere between flair and restraint--and sense of
lyric possibility bring together the hard glint of the contemporary
world and the eroded permanence of the archaic one through remixes,
underground sessions, Spenserian stanzas, myths, and revamped
translations. These are poems of fiery intelligence, inescapable
music, and metaphysical splendor that concern themselves with lived
life and the life of the imagination--both equally vivid and
true--as they lay the framework for Phillips's meditations on our
connection to and estrangement from the natural world.
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