5/20/2023 0 Comments Then the war carl phillips![]() This remarkable compendium is a testament to the spirit of Phillips's work. These lyrically rich, insightful poems are full of palpable aching-"like the rhyme between lost/ and most"-and a human urge to understand. He begins "The Difficulty": "It's as if the difficulty were less about what happened-/ the truth presumably-than how little/ what happened resembles the story/ of what happened." Often, he lays two ideas side by side as a way of exploring how beings (fathers, lovers, dogs, to name a few) affect one another: "what isn't love-at all-/ can begin to feel like love" ("Of California") "as if to be plundered meant at least not being alone" ("Among the Trees"). A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War I’m a song, changing. ![]() There is a deceptive looseness in Phillips's poems, which are conversational and intimate, heightening the poet's abiding concern with nuance. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips Paperback 20.00 Hardcover 35.00 Paperback 20.00 eBook 12. ![]() Combining new and old poems from the last 13 years with sections of his lyric prose memoir, "Among the Trees," this selected offers admirers of Phillips's work a chance to revisit his masterful poems, and new readers an opportunity to see the evolution of a vital presence in American poetry. ![]()
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