{"product_id":"heaven-poems-2015374168520","title":"Heaven: Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeaven: Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e by Phillips, Rowan Ricardo. hardcover edition. ISBN: 2015374168520.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry\nWinner of the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award\nFinalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize\nLong-listed for the National Book Award\nLong-listed for the PEN Open Book Award\nOne of The Washington Post’s Best Poetry Collections of 2015\nOne of NPR’s Best Books of 2015\nOne of Flavorwire’s Best Poetry Books of 2015\n\n\"Who the hells heaven is this?\" Rowan Ricardo Phillips offers many answers, and none at all, in Heaven, the piercing and revelatory encore to his award-winning debut, The Ground. Swerving elegantly from humor to heartbreak, from Colorado to Florida, from Dantes Paradise to Homers Iliad, from knowledge to ignorance to awe, Phillips turns his gaze upward and outward, probing and upending notions of the beyond.\n\n\"Feeling, real feeling \/ with all its faulty \/ Architecture, is \/ Beyond a gods touch\"―but it does not elude Phillips. Meditating on feverish boyhood, on two paintings by Chuck Close, on Shakespeares Measure for Measure, 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.\n\n\"The end,\" he writes, \"like \/ All Ive 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 theyve turned the last page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44989282254901,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374168520","price":91.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374168520_3cc5f266-0f1f-4d6a-b143-e47c2e757d23.jpg?v=1778793650","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/heaven-poems-2015374168520","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}