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Phillips, Rowan Ricardo. The Ground: Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Phillips, Rowan Ricardo. The Ground: Poems. Farrar. May 2012. c.96p. ISBN 9780374167080. $23. POETRY

Writing about place is like writing about love: everyone has done it, but few can do it well. The task is made all the more daunting when the place in question is New York City, surely one of the most revisited locales in the poetic canon. Phillips (English, Stony Brook Univ.; When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness) is one of the blessed few who writes about a place as if he were writing about a lover. He does not present readers with a romanticized Big Apple or a postmodern vision of a …

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