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Mrs. Clark, the diligent and caring matriarch, presides over her modest yet impeccably organized home, her actions seemingly driven by an unwavering determination to protect her granddaughter, Jenny. As the sun's rays spread throughout the house, illuminating every corner, a peculiar tale of tenderness, hardships, and mysterious herbal wisdom begins to unfold. In the embrace of this sun-drenched sanctuary, an unusual obsession with cleanliness takes hold, enveloping the residence in an almost clinical aura. Even the flies, intimidated by the immaculate atmosphere, hasten to evacuate the premises. But behind this seemingly arbitrary fixation lies a deep-seated fear for Jenny's well-being, lea...
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In this modern-day retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, Princess Christshae enjoys the beautiful garden of mirrors that her Father, the King has made for her. But she forgets what her father has told her not to do and becomes scared when she disobeys him.
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).