Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Living Weapon (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571366286
• Artikelnr.: 60374425

Autorenporträt

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of two books of poems (Heaven and The Ground) and two essay collections (The Circuit and When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness). As well as being a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, his awards include a Whiting Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing and the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award. Phillips lives in New York City and Barcelona.

Inhaltsangabe

1776
The First Last Light in the Sky
Violins
History
Halo
Mortality Ode
Spiegel im Spiegel
The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet
Thoughts and Prayers
November Nocturne
Night of the Election
Obsolete Machinery
Who Is Less Than a Vapor?
Eppur si muove
Tradition and the Individual Talent
The Peacock
A Tale of Two Cities
Trinidadian Triptych
I. After a Lime on Ariapita Avenue
II. Hart and Abercromby Étude
III. Swimmers in the Caribbean on the Eve of a Referendum
Death and the City
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Nude Figure
The Testament of Orpheus
Purple Elegy
Even Homer Nods
Love Song
The Golden Hour
The Köln Concert
Étude on Man
The King of Things
The Question
Dark Matter Ode
Portrait
Acknowledgments