Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Heaven

Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry Winner of the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award Finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize Long-listed for the National Book Award Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award One of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2015 One of NPR's Best Books of 2015 One of Flavorwire's Best Poetry Books of 2015 "Who the hell's heaven is this?" Rowan Ricardo Phillips offers many answers, and none at all, in Heaven, the piercing and revelatory encore to his award-winning debut, The Ground. Swerving elegantly from humor to heartbreak, from Colorado to Florida, from Dante's Paradise to Homer's Iliad, from knowledge to ignorance to awe, Phillips turns his gaze upward and outward, probing and upending notions of the beyond. "Feeling, real feeling / with all its faulty / Architecture, is / Beyond a god's touch"-but it does not elude Phillips. Meditating on feverish boyhood, on two paintings by Chuck Close, on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, on a dead rooster by the side of the road in Ohio, on an elk grazing outside his window, his language remains eternally intoxicating, full of play, pathos, and surprise. "The end," he writes, "like / All I've ever told you, is uncertain." Or, elsewhere: "The only way then to know a truth / Is to squint in its direction and poke." Phillips-who received a 2013 Whiting Writers' Award as well as the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award-may not be certain, but as he squints and pokes in the direction of truth, his power of perception and elegance of expression create a place where beauty and truth come together and drift apart like a planet orbiting its star. The result is a book whose lush and wounding beauty will leave its mark on readers long after they've turned the last page.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 130mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 91g
• ISBN-13: 9780374536220
• ISBN-10: 0374536228
• Artikelnr.: 43674799

Autorenporträt

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of seven previous books of poetry, prose, and translation. The recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the GLCA New Writers Award, Phillips has been a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, and an NAACP Image Award, and has been long-listed for the National Book Award for Poetry. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University and the poetry editor of The New Republic . His book in progress, I Just Want Them to Remember Me: Black Baseball in America will be published by FSG in 2025. He lives in New York City and Barcelona.