Heaven by Phillips, Rowan Ricardo
Heaven by Phillips, Rowan Ricardo

Heaven

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book AwardFinalist for the...
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Author: Rowan Ricardo Phillips
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Heaven by Phillips, Rowan Ricardo

Heaven

BD$24.04
Heaven by Phillips, Rowan Ricardo

Heaven

BD$24.04
Author: Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award
Finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize
Long-listed for the National Book Award
Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award
One of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2015
One of NPR's Best Books of 2015
One of Flavorwire's Best Poetry Books of 2015

"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 Iliad, 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.

Author: Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Publisher: Fsg Adult
Published: 04/19/2016
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780374536220

About the Author
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is also the author of The Ground (FSG, 2012). He is the recipient of a 2013 Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City.


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