Silver: Poems
A collection ranging in style from blank verse, elegy and terza rima, to rhyme royal, translation, and rap that dips in and out of liminal space to show us that poetry is everywhere.
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 se...



