{"title":"Carl Phillips","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"wild-is-the-wind-poems","title":"Wild Is the Wind: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What has restlessness been for?\" \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWild Is the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Carl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793369202730,"sku":"9780374538248","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/wild-is-the-wind-poems-4668396.jpg?v=1762149601"},{"product_id":"quiver-of-arrows-selected-poems-1986-2006","title":"Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuiver of Arrows \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed from the beginning of his career for a poetry provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft, Phillips has in the course of eight critically acclaimed collections generated a sustained meditation on the restless and ever-shifting myth of human identity. Desire and loss, mastery and subjugation, belief and doubt, sex, animal instinct, human reason: these are among the lenses through which Phillips examines what it means to be that most bewildering, irresolvable conundrum, a human being in the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhillips's sensibility as he questions morality, psychology, and our notions of responsibility is as startlingly original as the poems themselves, whose exacting standards for the line's flexibility and whose argument for a versatile, more muscular syntax bring to American poetry \"something not unlike a new musical scale\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eQuiver of Arrows \u003c\/i\u003eis the record of a powerful vision that, in its illumination of the human condition, has established itself as a necessary step toward our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first century.","brand":"Carl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793369432106,"sku":"9780374530785","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/quiver-of-arrows-selected-poems-1986-2006-8001707.jpg?v=1762149600"},{"product_id":"rest-of-love","title":"Rest of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStriking new poems from a writer whose \"lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers.\" (Carol Moldaw, \u003ci\u003eThe Antioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe light, for as far as\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI can see, is that of any number of late \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eafternoons I remember still: how the light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eseemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003einsider it, waiting - I'd heard all about \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat one clear note it gives. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Late Apollo III\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to believe: Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off facing up to, even briefly, the hard truths we're nevertheless attracted to? Phillips's signature terse line and syntax enact this constant tension between abandon and control; following his impeccable interior logic, \"passionately austere\" (Rita Dove, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eBook World), Phillips plumbs the myths we make and return to in the name of desire-physical, emotional, and spiritual. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Love \u003c\/i\u003eis a 2004 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.","brand":"Carl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793369497642,"sku":"9780374529628","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/rest-of-love-1287839.jpg?v=1762149600"},{"product_id":"riding-westward-poems","title":"Riding Westward: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRiding Westward\u003c\/i\u003e, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral crisis. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe singer turning this and that way, as if watching the song itself\u003cbr\u003e--the words to the song--leave him, as he\u003cbr\u003elets each go, the wind carrying most of it, \u003cbr\u003esome of the words, falling, settling into\u003cbr\u003einstead that larger darkness, where the smaller \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edarknesses that our lives were lie softly down.\"\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Riding Westward\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality from what is desired? What is the difference, Phillips asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct.","brand":"Carl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793369563178,"sku":"9780374530822","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/riding-westward-poems-5104066.jpg?v=1762149600"},{"product_id":"tether-poems","title":"Tether: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs I understand it, I could\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ecall him. 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In \u003ci\u003eThe Tether\u003c\/i\u003e, his fifth book, Phillips's characteristically cascading poetic line is leaner and more dramatic than ever.\"","brand":"Carl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793369661482,"sku":"9780374528454","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/tether-poems-6311845.jpg?v=1762149600"},{"product_id":"rock-harbor-poems","title":"Rock Harbor: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWind as a face gone red with blowing, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eoceans whose end is broken stitchery--\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eswim of sea-dragon, dolphin, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eshimmer-and-coil, invitation. . . . You Know\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe kind of map I mean. 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Phillips's pooling, cascading lines are the unsuppressed routes across his unique poetic landscape, daring and seductive in their readiness to drift and reverse as the terrain demands.","brand":"Carl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793369792554,"sku":"9780374528850","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/rock-harbor-poems-4806513.jpg?v=1762149600"},{"product_id":"scattered-snows-to-the-north-poems","title":"Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarl Phillips's \u003ci\u003eScattered Snows, to the North\u003c\/i\u003e 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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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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThen the War\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eStar Map with Action \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFigures\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, 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. \u003ci\u003eThen \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe War \u003c\/i\u003eis luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry.","brand":"Carl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793370415146,"sku":"9780374607678","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/then-the-war-and-selected-poems-2007-2020-9754305.jpg?v=1762149539"},{"product_id":"speak-low","title":"Speak Low","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeak Low \u003c\/i\u003eis the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. 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