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\"Prince-news\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dearly beloved, this is what it sounds
Like when you become a symbol through sound
That roreth of the crying and the soun:
You give up all your shit, down to the sou,
Wade through raspberry death to find him so
You can remind yourself he once was<\/p>\n

Rowan Ricardo Phillips\u2019s second book of poems,\u00a0<\/em>Heaven<\/a>,\u00a0was published last year.\u00a0<\/em>He is the recipient of the 2013\u00a0PEN<\/small>\/Joyce Osterweil Award, a 2013 Whiting Writers\u2019 Award, a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and is shortlisted for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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