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The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination

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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 Phillips meditates on the craft of poetry, its capacity for making a space for possibility and inquiry. What does it mean to give shapelessness a form? How can a poem explore both the natural world and the inner world? Phillips demonstrates the restless qualities of the imagination by reading and examining poems by Ashbery, Bogan, Frost, Niedecker, Shakespeare, and others, and by considering other art forms, such as photography and the blues. The Art of Daring is a lyrical, persuasive argument for the many ways that writing and living are acts of risk. "I think it's largely the conundrum of being human that makes us keep making," Phillips writes. "I think it has something to do with revision--how, not only is the world in constant revision, but each of us is, as well."

Book Details

Publisher:
Graywolf Press
ISBN:
9781555976811
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
136
Authors:
Carl Phillips
Published Date:
2014-08-05
Language:
English

About Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022). Born in Everett, Washington, he earned a BA from Harvard University and an MA from Boston University. He is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. His earlier collections include Cortège (Graywolf, 1995). His honors include the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress.

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