Rowan ricardo phillips poems
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, academic, journalist, and translator. His poetry collections include The Ground (FSG, 2012), Heaven (FSG, 2015), Living Weapon (FSG, 2020), and the forthcoming Silver (FSG, 2024). He is also the author of When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (a new edition of which is forthcoming from FSG) and the nonfiction book The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. His translations, primarily from Catalan, have appeared widely; including his translation of Salvador Espriu’s classic short-story collection Ariadne and the Grotesque Labyrinth (Dalkey Archive, 2012). Phillips has written on contemporary art for Artforum as well as for David Kordansky Gallery. In 2021, an exhibition inspired by one of Phillips’ poems, “The Beatitudes of Malibu” debuted at the David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. Phillips is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, the President of the Board of the New York Institute of the Humanities, and the poetry editor of The New Republic.
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“No matter where he goes, Phillips’ language is hauntingly astute, and the reality he conjures is multi-layered.” ―The Washington Post
“Dazzling, totally original combinations of language and form, geography and autobiography, history, myth, and religion.” —Commonweal
“The ground Phillips treads is a middle ground—between spirit and flesh, heaven and earth, here and gone. His images are evanescent, twilit, smoke-obscured.” —New York Times
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, academic, journalist and translator, Phillips is the author of several books. His poetry collections include Silver (FSG, 2024), The Ground (FSG, 2012), Heaven (FSG, 2015), Living Weapon (2020), and the forthcoming Silver (FSG, 2024). He is also the author of When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (a new edition of which is forthcoming from FSG) and the nonfiction book The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. His translations, primarily from Catalan, have appeared widely; including his translation of Salvador Espriu’s classic shor
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips
American poet (born 1974)
Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet, writer, editor, and translator. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University,[1] the poetry editor of The New Republic,[2] and the editor of Princeton University Press' Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry.[3] He is President of the Board of the New York Institute for the Humanities.[4]
He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012),[5]Heaven (2015),[6] and Living Weapon (2020),[7] the non-fiction books When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness[8] and The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey,[9] and a translation from the Catalan of Salvador Espriu's short-story collection Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth.[10]
Life
Phillips was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx. His parents are from Antigua and Barbuda.[11] He graduated from Hunter College High School and Swarthmore College and has a
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