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Following the Pulitzer Prize-winning Then the War, Phillips continues his ever-persuasive study of the evolving self, revealing a tentative acceptance despite the underlying sense of melancholy. In the pointed title poem, reflecting on life's meaning(lessness), he wonders, "Does it matter that the Roman / Empire was still early in its slow / unwinding into never again?" Most of its citizens were "destined to be unremembered,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More