Description: I'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 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 more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips's work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, "Among the Trees," and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures. Ultimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry.
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EAN: 9780374607678
UPC: 9780374607678
ISBN: 9780374607678
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Book Title: Then the War : and Selected Poems, 2007-2020
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: American / African American, Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, Lgbt
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Author: Carl Phillips
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 7.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
