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Title: Living Weapon: Poems
Author: PHILLIPS ROWAN RICARDO
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 18/02/2020
Imprint: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
<i>. . . and we’d do this again</i>
<i>And again and again, without ever</i>
<i>Knowing we were the weapon ourselves,</i>
<i>Stronger than steel, story, and hydrogen.
</i>— from "Even Homer Nods"
A revelation, a shoring up, a transposition: Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s <i>Living Weapon </i>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. <i>Living Weapon </i>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, <i>Living Weapon</i> is a piercing addition from a “virtuoso poetic voice” (<i>Granta</i>).
ISBN: 9780374191993
Dimension: 210mm X 137mm
Pages: 96