Silver Poems
Silver Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a collection published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on March 5, 2024. This edition spans 80 pages and is presented in English. The book showcases Phillips’s mastery in crafting luminous and dreamlike poems that explore the complexities of life through a variety of poetic forms, including blank verse, elegy, and rap.
Readers will find a prismatic array of characters, textures, and moods within these pages. The collection reflects Phillips’s belief that poetry captures the essence of existence, intertwining elements of physics, faith, and the void. Silver Poems invites exploration of the vibrant and fresh interpretations of traditional styles, emphasizing the enduring power of poetry in a multifaceted world.
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title.
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 rima, rhyme royal, translation, rap), Silver reimagines them with such extraordinary vision and alluring strangeness that they sound irrepressibly fresh and vibrant. From beginning to end, Silver is a collection that reflects Phillips’s guiding principle—“part physics, part faith, part void”—that all is reflected in poetry and poetry is reflected in all.
This is work that brings into acute focus the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world.
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