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Living Weapon
About this book
Living Weapon is a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light homing in on our political moment. A winged man plummets from the troposphere, four police officers enter a phone store, concrete pavements hang overhead. Phillips ruminates on violins and violence, on hatred and pleasure, on turning forty-three, even on the end of existence itself. His poetry reveals the limitations of our vocabulary, showing that our platitudes are inadequate to the brutal times we find ourselves in. And yet, through interrogation of allegory and symbol, names and things, time and musicality, a language of grace and urgency is found. For still our lives go on, and these are poems of survival as much as indictment. Living Weapon is a piercing, flaring collection from 'a virtuoso poetic voice' (
Granta).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- First Epigraph
- Second Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Prelude
- 1776
- The First Last Light in the Sky
- Violins
- History
- Halo
- Mortality Ode
- Spiegel im Spiegel
- The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet
- Thoughts and Prayers
- November Nocturne
- Night of the Election
- Obsolete Machinery
- Who Is Less Than a Vapor?
- Eppur si muove
- Tradition and the Individual Talent
- The Peacock
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Trinidadian Triptych
- Death and the City
- Crisis on Infinite Earths
- Nude Figure
- The Testament of Orpheus
- Purple Elegy
- Even Homer Nods
- Love Song
- The Golden Hour
- The Köln Concert
- Étude on Man
- The King of Things
- The Question
- Dark Matter Ode
- Portrait
- Screens
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright