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Silver - Softcover

Phillips, Rowan Ricardo

 
9780571382927: Silver

Synopsis

Silver is a collection that shines with a guiding principle: that poetry, 'part physics, part faith, part void', can be found wherever it is looked for. Virtuosic in style, sharing the agility of the legendary Argentinian footballer, Lionel Messi, who is conjured in its pages, the poems shape-shift through blank verse, elegy, terza rima and rap. Phillips alchemises imaginative experience and haptic, lived reality in poems that mine raw sensation, unearthing unexpected cultural ties.

'Not the meaning,' he writes, 'but the meaningfulness of this mystery we call life.' In his hands, poetry is both precision tool and glimmering refuge. Ranging through time and place, summoning fellow travellers along the way, the poems cast a silvery light, transforming all they touch with alluring strangeness and vibrancy.

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About the Author

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, critic, and translator. His honours and awards include the Whiting Award, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, two PEN America awards and the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award. He is the editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and the poetry editor of the New Republic. His poetry collections include Silver (2024) and Living Weapon (2021). He divides his time between New York City and Barcelona.

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