{"product_id":"heaven-poems-9780374536220","title":"Heaven: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Nicol s Guill n Outstanding Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the PEN Open Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post's \u003c\/i\u003eBest Poetry Collections of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of NPR's Best Books of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire's \u003c\/i\u003eBest Poetry Books of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Who the hell's heaven is this?\" Rowan Ricardo Phillips offers many answers, and none at all, in \u003ci\u003eHeaven\u003c\/i\u003e, the piercing and revelatory encore to his award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Ground\u003c\/i\u003e. Swerving elegantly from humor to heartbreak, from Colorado to Florida, from Dante's \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e to Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, from knowledge to ignorance to awe, Phillips turns his gaze upward and outward, probing and upending notions of the beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Feeling, real feeling \/ with all its faulty \/ Architecture, is \/ Beyond a god's touch\"--but it does not elude Phillips. Meditating on feverish boyhood, on two paintings by Chuck Close, on Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e, on a dead rooster by the side of the road in Ohio, on an elk grazing outside his window, his language remains eternally intoxicating, full of play, pathos, and surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The end,\" he writes, \"like \/ All I've ever told you, is uncertain.\" Or, elsewhere: \"The only way then to know a truth \/ Is to squint in its direction and poke.\" Phillips--who received a 2013 Whiting Writers' Award as well as the PEN\/Joyce Osterweil Award--may not be certain, but as he squints and pokes in the direction of truth, his power of perception and elegance of expression create a place where beauty and truth come together and drift apart like a planet orbiting its star. The result is a book whose lush and wounding beauty will leave its mark on readers long after they've turned the last page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phillips, Rowan Ricardo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374536220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.20d","brand":"Rowan Ricardo Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39626569351243,"sku":"9780374536220","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_3e26ae1d-efb7-4054-883a-8f752863692b.jpg?v=1640703909","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/heaven-poems-9780374536220","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}