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Poetry | paper | $15.95 | 124 pgs |
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-38-9<\/p>\n

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Erou<\/em><\/h1>\n

Maya Phillips<\/h2>\n

Winner of the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize<\/h5>\n
Winner of the 2020 Poetry by the Sea First Book Award<\/h5>\n
Reviewed by Stephanie Burt for The New York Times Book Review.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0“Ode to My Father’s Failed Heart”, a poem from Erou<\/em>, was selected by Rita Dove for her poetry column in\u00a0The New York Times Magazine.<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Maya Phillips Named 2019 Featured Debut Poet by Poets & Writers<\/em>.<\/a><\/h5>\n
Erou<\/em> was featured in Poets & Writers<\/em>‘ Page One section of their September\/October 2019 issue.<\/a><\/h5>\n

Maya Phillips\u2019 stunning debut collection Erou<\/em> borrows the framework of the traditional Greek epic to interrogate the inner workings of a present-day nuclear family and the role of a patriarch whose life, marriage, and death are imagined as a sort of hero\u2019s journey. Her poems move seamlessly between the worlds of the living and the dead, between myth and reality in a journey that raises its own Homeric question: What is home and how do we locate our place within that home? These are poems of passion and compassion in their reconciliation with what cannot be changed\u2014but can be understood\u2014by those who have been left behind.<\/p>\n

Ode to My Father\u2019s Failed Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s okay. I, too, have failed
\nat the expected, have sputtered
\nand choked like a rusty valve
\nin water, have jumped into the pool
\nonly to sink. Little engine, your flawed
\nmachinery is nothing like love. You limp
\nat last call to the dance floor,
\nbut feel no shame
\nin your offbeat two-step,
\nyour eleventh-hour shuffle
\nin a dead man\u2019s shoes.
\nThere\u2019s nothing left
\nbut the encore, so go ahead:
\nrelax, unravel
\nlike a loosened knot. Overripe
\nfruit in his chest, you blush
\nwith uncertainty, bruise yourself
\ntender; little heart, tiny treasure,
\nsweeten to the point of spoil.<\/p>\n

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