Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s next book of poems, The Milky Way, is forthcoming from FSG. He is Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University.
We were passengers forced to jump into the water when our ship, the 2020, after years of creaking, cracked in half and sank down into the darkness. The ship was long thought to be beautiful. For it gleamed in the sunlight. And it gleamed in...
