Paradise Lost

I start with sorrow, Then feign joy In the rhythm method
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
from the book Silver / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Rowan Ricardo Phillips on "Paradise Lost"
Photo: Rowan Ricardo Phillips
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