Phillips Rowan Ricardo - Living Weapon Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Award - winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in Living Weapon. and we'd do this again And again and again without ever Knowing we were the weapon ourselves Stronger than steel story and hydrogen. - from " Even Homer Nods" A revelation a shoring up a transposition: Rowan Ricardo Phillips's Living Weapon is a love song to the imagination a new blade of light honed in on our political moment. A winged man plummets from the troposphere; four NYPD officers enter a cellphone store; concrete sidewalks hang overhead. Here in his third collection of poems Phillips offers us ruminations on violins and violence on hatred on turning forty - three even on the end of existence itself. Living Weapon reveals to us the limitations of our vocabulary that our platitudes are not enough for the brutal times in which we find ourselves. But still our lives go on and these are poems of survival as much as they are an indictment. Couched in language both wry and ample Living Weapon is a piercing addition from a "virtuoso poetic voice" (Granta).
Title: Living Weapon Poems
Author(s): Phillips Rowan Ricardo
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374539320
Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/16/2021