{"product_id":"living-weapon-poems-paperback","title":"Living Weapon: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRowan Ricardo Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward-winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in \u003ci\u003eLiving Weapon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . and we'd do this again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd again and again, without ever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKnowing we were the weapon ourselves, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStronger than steel, story, and hydrogen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e-- from \"Even Homer Nods\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA revelation, a shoring up, a transposition: Rowan Ricardo Phillips's \u003ci\u003eLiving Weapon \u003c\/i\u003eis a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light honed in on our political moment. A winged man plummets from the troposphere; four NYPD officers enter a cellphone store; concrete sidewalks hang overhead. Here, in his third collection of poems, Phillips offers us ruminations on violins and violence, on hatred, on turning forty-three, even on the end of existence itself. \u003ci\u003eLiving Weapon \u003c\/i\u003ereveals to us the limitations of our vocabulary, that our platitudes are not enough for the brutal times in which we find ourselves. But still, our lives go on, and these are poems of survival as much as they are an indictment. Couched in language both wry and ample, \u003ci\u003eLiving Weapon\u003c\/i\u003e is a piercing addition from a \"virtuoso poetic voice\" (\u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRowan Ricardo Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the books of poems \u003ci\u003eHeaven \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eThe Ground \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2012), as well as the essay collections \u003ci\u003eThe Circuit \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhen Blackness Rhymes with Blackness. \u003c\/i\u003eHis 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 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award. He lives in New York City and Barcelona.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47456050086066,"sku":"9780374539320","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/92094091cae64a182ffe100280b7d594.webp?v=1778865435","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/living-weapon-poems-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}