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Living Weapon: Poems

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rowan Ricardo PhillipsPublish date:2021-02-16Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374539320ISBN-10:374539324UPC:9780374539320Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCF484D9CH

Living Weapon: Poems

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...



Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374539320ISBN-10:374539324UPC:9780374539320Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCF484D9CH
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of the books of poems Heaven (FSG, 2015) and The Ground (FSG, 2012), as well as the essay collections The Circuit and When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness. His many awards include a Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN/Osterweil Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and the Nicol?s Guill?n Outstanding Book Award. He...
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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