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This beautiful, slender collection-small and weighted like a coin-is 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 rim...

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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONLiving Weapon is a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light homing in on our political moment. Living Weapon is a piercing, flaring collection from 'a virtuoso poetic voice' (Granta).

Award-winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in Living Weapon.. . . and we'd do this againAnd again and again, without everKnowing 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 imagination, a new blade of light honed in on our political mo...

Award-winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in Living Weapon.. . . and we'd do this againAnd again and again, without everKnowing 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 imagination, a new blade of light honed in on our political mo...

An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season.Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing"The Circuit is the best sports book I've read in years, maybe ever." -Rich Cohen, author of The Chicago Cubs and Monsters "As sports writing goes, The Circuit is unusual in the very best way. Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes with such fluidity, and packs the book with bursts of brilliance. This is a compulsively readable guide to one truly Homeric year of professional tennis." -John Gr...

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book AwardFinalist for the Griffin International Poetry PrizeLong-listed for the National Book AwardLong-listed for the PEN Open Book AwardOne of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2015One of NPR's Best Books of 2015One of Flavorwire's Best Poetry Books of 2015"Who the hell's heaven is this?" Rowan Ricardo Phillips offers many answers, and...

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book AwardFinalist for the Griffin International Poetry PrizeLong-listed for the National Book AwardLong-listed for the PEN Open Book AwardOne of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2015One of NPR's Best Books of 2015One of Flavorwire's Best Poetry Books of 2015"Who the hell's heaven is this?" Rowan Ricardo Phillips offers many answers, and...