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Carl Phillips
An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture
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Carl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that's based on human memory.
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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 anthology of poems edited by Erin Belieu and Carl Phillips"--
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Carl Canedy, Phillip Harrington
It was 1980. Once adored by the public, disco had run its course and was gasping its final breath. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was beginning to gain…
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A Study Guide for Carl Phillips’s All It Takes, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Striking new poems from a writer whose lyric gift … outstrips all diversionary maneuvers. (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review)
The light, for as far as I can see, is that…
Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive–and one of poetry’s most essential–contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising…
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Carl Phillips is the author of nine previous books of poems, including Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006 ; Riding Westward ; and The Rest of Love, a National Book…
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Award-winning poet Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority, identity and beauty in these sensual and deeply intelligent critical essays. He attends to the life and art of poetry by…
Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips’s work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America’s most distinctive–and one of poetry’s most essential–contemporary voices.
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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…
In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own–speculative, athletic, immediate–as he confronts moral crisis.
The singer turning this and that…
A masterfully curated collection, drawn from a century of works in the acclaimed Yale Series of Younger Poets
Graceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill.
As I understand it, I could call him. Though it would help,it is not…
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically admired poets
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…
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most respected poets.
Then the War sees Carl Phillips turn his sharp and subtle gaze inward, charting the changing landscapes of his life and work in a collection of new and selected poems…
The first UK publication from this acclaimed US poet, one of the outstanding lyric poets of our time.
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With From the Devotions, Carl Phillips takes us even further into that dangerous space he has already made his own, where body and soul–ever restless–come explosively together. Speaking to a…
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 writing
In seven insightful essays, Carl…
Carl Phillips,Phillips, Robin
A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak Low
Comparing any human life to a restless choir of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one…
Will Schutt
Will Schutt is the 2012 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
Yanyi
Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
Luther Hughes
Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle’s flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes’ debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from…
A ghostly portrait of New York in a time of pandemic and post-truth
For many years New York-based photographer Aaron Stern resisted taking pictures there–that is until the COVID-19 pandemic…
Ansel Elkins
Winner of the 2014 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
Noah Warren
Winner of the 2015 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
Duy Doan
The 112th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores the Vietnamese-American experience
Alan Dugan
A new collection of poems by the winner of the 2001 National Book Award chronicles 40 years in the career of one of the nation’s most talented poetic voices.
C.N. Phillips
Kleigh never wanted Tron to fall in love with her. How can she tell him that the kingpin he’s after is her big brother?
Dawn Lundy Martin
Includes poems which make a case that neither gentleness nor easiness is appropriate in the attempt to contend with the trauma and violence that are an inescapable part of human…
Airea D. Matthews
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
Desiree C. Bailey
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself
Sophocles
Centering on the Greek army’s attempt to win the trust of their master bowman Philoctetes, without whom they cannot win the Trojan War, Philoctetes is a meditation on ends and…
C. N. Phillips
A kingpin story like never before. Cyril sets out to avenge his brother, and his target is none other than the kingpin of Los Angeles.
Carl Friedrich Phillip von Martius
Beitrage zur Ethnographie (1867) is the German scientist Carl von Martius’ colourful and personal memoir of his early travels to Brazil in the years 1817-1820. He focuses on the indigenous…
Beitrage zur Ethnographie (1867) is the German scientist Carl von Martius’ colourful and personal memoir of his early travels to Brazil in the years 1817-1820. Volume 2 contains a dictionary…
Beitrage zur Ethnographie (1867) is Carl von Martius’ colourful and personal memoir of his travels to Brazil in the years 1817-1820. Although better known as a botanist, Martius here ventures…
