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An arresting study of memory, perception, and the beauty and finitude of the human condition from Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips"--

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture

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A new collection of poems from one of America's most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the WarI'm a song, changing. I'm a light rain falling through a vast darkness toward a different darkness.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...

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture

The first UK publication from this acclaimed US poet, one of the outstanding lyric poets of our time.

A new collection of poems from one of America's most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the WarI'm a song, changing. I'm a light rain falling through a vast darkness toward a different darkness. 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 raci...

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically acclaimed poets.Carl Phillips's new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of vario...

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How does a sentence, // just like that, become prayer?" Part parable, part bestiary, part glossary of possible and impossible loves, Star Map with Action Figures, poem after poem, provides an answer. From the space between punishment and its promise, Phillips quizzes the thousand churlish faces of desire: two boys making love on a riverbank, a horse named Nightmare, the self "a needle pushed through / the stretched canvas of belief." Star Map ...

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically acclaimed poets.Carl Phillips's new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of vario...

A masterfully curated collection, drawn from a century of works in the acclaimed Yale Series of Younger Poets

A masterfully curated collection, drawn from a century of works in the acclaimed Yale Series of Younger Poets

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Stone containers have been made and used in the Middle East for over eleven millennia where they pre-dated the invention of pottery. This is the first attempt to bring together different approaches to the study of softstone vessels, particularly those carved from varieties of chlorite, and covering all periods from prehistory to the present.

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets.

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets"What has restlessness been for?" In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named-love at once restless, reckless, and yet desired for its potential to bring stability. In the process, he pitches estrangement against communion, examines the past as history...

The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writingIn seven insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditates on the craft of poetry, its capacity for making a space for possibility and inquiry. What does it mean to give shapelessness a form? How can a poem explore both the natural world and the inner world? Phillips demonstrates the restless qualities o...

A bracingly beautiful new collection from the author of Double Shadow"After the afterlife, there's an afterlife."In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves, intentional and not, can lead not only to a kind of wisdom but also to renewal, maybe even joy, if we're willing to commit fully to a life in which "I love you / means what exactly?" In poems sho...