Heaven / Rowan Ricardo Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Rowan Ricardo.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

61 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Summary:

"A spectacularly vibrant and continually surprising collection from one of the poetry world's rising young stars "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 Illiad, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Mind After Everything has Happened

Kingdom Come

The Odyssey, Book 11, Lines 538-556

Little Song

Boys

The Starry Night

The Empyrean

The Barycenter

Measure for Measure

Nothing of a Blue Remains

Mirror for the Mirror

Monday Morning in Snowmass, Colorado

Paradiso, V: 91-93

Sin Verguenza

Lucas and Mark

The Beatitudes of Malibu

Like Someone Who Sees Himself Close to Death

Nature

Apollo and Marsyas

The God and the Goat

Musica Universalis

Grand Poeme Pathetique

Paris Prelude

To An Old Friend in Paris

Never Again Would Birds' Song be the Same

Like a Bullet Shot Backwards Through Time

The Primum Mobile

Pax Americana

On the End of the Iliad

News from the Muse of Not Guilty

The Once and Future King of Ohio

The Menace

The Descent of Jupiter Over the Maroon Bells

Exit Troubadour

Bernardo

An Excuse for Mayhem

Vall de Nuria.

Notes:

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Poetry, Winner, 2016

ISBN:

9780374168520

0374168520

0374536228

9780374536220

OCLC:

894816374

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