This beautiful, slender collectionsmall and weighted like a coinis Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very best. These luminous, unsparing, dreamlike poems are as lyrical as they are virtuosic. Not the meaning, Phillips writes, but the meaningfulness of this mystery we call life powers these poems as they conjure their prismatic array of characters, textures, and moods. As it reverberates through several styles (blank verse, elegy, terza rima, rhyme royal, translation, rap),Silverreimagines them with such extraordinary vision and alluring strangeness that they sound irrepressibly fresh and vibrant. From beginning to end,Silveris a collection that reflects Phillipss guiding principlepart physics, part faith, part voidthat all is reflected in poetry and poetry is reflected in all.

This is work that brings into acute focus the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world.

DIMENSION : 5.69 x 0.44 x 8.56 inches
WEIGHT : 1047 g

This beautiful, slender collectionsmall and weighted like a coinis Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very best. These luminous, unsparing, dreamlike poems are as lyrical as they are virtuosic. Not the meaning, Phillips writes, but the meaningfulness of this mystery we call life powers these poems as they conjure their prismatic array of characters, textures, and moods. As it reverberates through several styles (blank verse, elegy, terza rima, rhyme royal, translation, rap),Silverreimagines them with such extraordinary vision and alluring strangeness that they sound irrepressibly fresh and vibrant. From beginning to end,Silveris a collection that reflects Phillipss guiding principlepart physics, part faith, part voidthat all is reflected in poetry and poetry is reflected in all. This is work that brings into acute focus the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world. ISBN : 9780374611316 BY (AUTHOR) Phillips, Rowan Ricardo PUBLISHER : Farrar, Straus and Giroux PUBLICATION DATE : March 5, 2024 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : IMPRINT : LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Hardback DIMENSION : 5.69 x 0.44 x 8.56 inchesWEIGHT : 1047 g