Rock Harbor / Carl Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Carl, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

110 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Summary:

"Wind as a face gone red with blowing, "oceans whose end is broken stitchery-- "swim of sea-dragon, dolphin, "shimmer-and-coil, invitation. . . . You Know"the kind of map I mean. Countries as "distant as they are believable . . . --from "Halo" Carl Phillips lyric explorations of longing and devotion, castigation and mercy, are unrivaled in contemporary poetry. Here, in his sixth book, Phillips visits those spaces, both physical and psychological, where risk and safety coincide, and considers what it might mean to live at the nexus of the two. Sifting among the upturned evidence of crisis, from Roman Empire to westward expansion, from the turn of a lover's face to the harbor of the book's title--a place of calm fashioned of the very rock that can mean disaster--these poems negotiate and map out the impulse toward rescue and away from it. 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.

ISBN:

0374528853

9780374528850

OCLC:

56113007

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