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Wild Is the Wind: Poems

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A 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 versus the past as memory, and reflects on the past?s capacity both to teach and to mislead us?also to make us hesitate in the face of love, given the loss and damage that are, often enough, love?s fallout. How ?to say no to despair?? How to take perhaps that greatest risk, the risk of believing in what offers no guarantee? These poems that, in their wedding of the philosophical, meditative, and lyric modes, mark a new stage in Phillips?s remarkable work, stand as further proof that ?if Carl Phillips had not come onto the scene, we would have needed to invent him. His idiosyncratic style, his innovative method, and his unique voice are essential steps in the evolution of the craft? (Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review).

Author: Carl Phillips
Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Publication Date: Jan 22, 2019
Number of Pages: 80 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0374538247
ISBN-13: 9780374538248

Wild Is the Wind: Poems

$16.00
$14.63
Sale 9%
 
A 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 versus the past as memory, and reflects on the past?s capacity both to teach and to mislead us?also to make us hesitate in the face of love, given the loss and damage that are, often enough, love?s fallout. How ?to say no to despair?? How to take perhaps that greatest risk, the risk of believing in what offers no guarantee? These poems that, in their wedding of the philosophical, meditative, and lyric modes, mark a new stage in Phillips?s remarkable work, stand as further proof that ?if Carl Phillips had not come onto the scene, we would have needed to invent him. His idiosyncratic style, his innovative method, and his unique voice are essential steps in the evolution of the craft? (Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review).

Author: Carl Phillips
Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Publication Date: Jan 22, 2019
Number of Pages: 80 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0374538247
ISBN-13: 9780374538248
 

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