Pastoral Poems 1st Edition by Carl Phillips ISBN 1555972985 9781555972981

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ISBN 10: 1555972985

ISBN 13: 9781555972981 

Author:  Carl Phillips 

“Carl Phillips’ passionate and lyrical poems read like prayers, with a prayer’s hesitations, its desire to be utterly accurate, its occasional flowing outbursts. Their affinity with John Donne is apparent, as they range from the mystical to the erotic. A third intensity is their devotion to language; Mr. Phillips writes with an almost whispered, at times almost unbearable elegance, as he reveals and declares some of the innermost truths of the human heart.”

Judges’ Citation

1998 National Book Awards for From the Devotions

“‘Come back, come back. Tell us of excess’ pleads the invocation (from Duncan) opening this stunning new collection from Carl Phillips. And indeed barely contained excess does function as a tutelary deity to this brilliant Romance: the poet questing for searing (even blinding) vision in a demotic world; the poet as seeker of moral instruction through the outrage of flesh…. Desire— erotic and spiritual— courses passionately through this collection— the strict shape desire inflicts on the chaos desire lets loose. But Phillips addresses not only passion, but art, history, nature: all in his hands forms of wanting. His rhythms beautifully and powerfully various— sinewy, majestic, casual, adamant— he modulates from honesty to honesty like no one else; both trusts and beautifully second-guesses appearances with an accuracy that moves and amazes.”

Jorie Graham

The author of three previous books of poetry— From the Devotions, Cortège, and In the Blood— Carl Phillips has received prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, and has been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Table of contents:

I
A Kind of Meadow

II
Clay
Abundance
Clap of Thunder
Dearest Won
Study, between Colors
Parable
“All art …”
Unbeautiful
Hymn
The Gods Leaving
Black Box
Lay Me Down
Against His Quitting the Torn Field

III
And Fitful Memories of Pan

IV
Afterword
Autumn. A Mixed Music
Of That City, the Heart
Wanted
Would-Be Everlasting
Billet-Doux
A Fountain
Animal
Portage
Hour of Dusk
Gesture, Possibly Archaic
Retreat

V
The Kill
Notes

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