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The tether / Carl Phillips.
LIBRA Special PS3566.H476 T4 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Carl, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 83 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
- Summary:
- In these twenty-eight new poems, Carl Phillips considers the substance of connection, between lover and beloved, mind and body, talon and perch, and tends the cable of mutual trust between soaring figure and shadowed ground.
- Contemporary literature can claim no poetry more clearly allegorical than that of Carl Phillips, whose four collections have turned frequently to nature, myth, and history for illustration; still, readers know the primary attributes of his work to be its physicality, grace, and disarming honesty about desire and faith. The Tether gives us a lyric poet at the height of his skill.
- Contents:
- Luck
- Just south of the kingdom
- Spoils, dividing
- Words of love
- The point of the lambs
- A force, and would consume us
- Roman glass
- This, the pattern
- Stagger
- Medallion
- Regalia figure
- Strung absentia
- Recumbent
- Lustrum
- For the falconer
- Tether
- Preamble
- Chamber music
- Little dance outside the ruins of unreason
- The lost chorus
- The pinnacle
- Familiar
- Chosen figure
- Caravan
- Safari figure
- Yours, and the room after
- The figure, the boundary, the light
- Revision.
- Notes:
- Poems--Cover.
- ISBN:
- 0374528454
- 9780374528454
- OCLC:
- 49804186
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