From the devotions : poems / by Carl Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Carl, 1959-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

81 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [1998]

Summary:

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 balance between decorum and pain, he offers here a devotional poetry that argues for faith, even without the comforting gods or the organized structures of revealed truth. Neither sage nor saint nor prophet, the poet is the listener, the mourner, the one who has some access to the maddening quarters of human consciousness, the wry Sibyl. From the Devotions is deeply felt, highly intelligent, and unsentimental, and cements Phillips's reputation as a poet of enormous talent and depth.

Contents:

The living: The trees

Alba: innocence

Luna moth

Honey hush

Arcadia

In the days of thrown confetti

In the Borghese gardens

No kingdom

Alba: failure

Gods various: The blue castrato

On morals

Renderings

The hunters

On restraint

How we met the barbarians

Alba: after

The gods

The sibyl

The veil between: A great noise

Alba: come

The flume

Two versions of the very same story

Tunnel

As from a quiver of arrows

The full acreage of mourning

Meditation

From the devotions.

Other Format:

Online version: Phillips, Carl, 1959- From the devotions.

ISBN:

1555972632

9781555972639

OCLC:

38269684

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