Carl Phillips
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
"Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "ongoing quest"; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood"--
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this new collection, Carl Phillips presents a tightly coherent, emotionally nuanced interrogation of the concept of pastoral. He creates a shadowy inner landscape where the field is the heart, and the heart itself has a beautifully, often treacherously flawed darkness that each of us seeks to penetrate, believing in the possibility of light.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
With From the Devotions, Carl Phillips takes us even further into that dangerous space he has already made his own, where body and soul -- ever restless -- come explosively together. Speaking to a balance between decorum and pain, he offers here a devotional poetry that argues for faith, even without the comforting gods or the organized structures of revealed truth. Neither sage nor saint nor prophet, the poet is the listener, the mourner, the one...
5) In the blood
Author
Series
Morse Poetry Prize ; 1992
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the writing life, an "apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered." Drawing on forty years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers, he weaves his experiences as a poet with the necessary survival skills, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community"--
9) Simulacra
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Presents a collection of poetry by American poet, Airea D. Matthews."--
