Wild is the wind / Carl Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Carl, 1959- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

POETRY / American / African American.

POETRY / LGBT.

American poetry.

Local Subjects:

POETRY / American / African American.

POETRY / LGBT.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

55 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018.

Summary:

How do we say no to despair, and instead take the risk of believing in something that offers no guarantee? Phillips reflects on the instability of life and love, and examines the past as both history and memory. Explore how the past can teach us and mislead us, and make us hesitate in the face of love.

Contents:

Courtship

Swimming

Brothers in arms

Musculature

Givingly

The distance and the spoils

Not the waves as they make thier way forward

Gold leaf

Several birds in hand but the rest go free

Stray

Revolver

The dark no softer than it was before

From a bonfire

And love you too

What I see is the light falling all around us

Black and copper in a crush of flowers

If you go away

What the lost are for

Rockabye

His master's voice

That it might save, or drown them

Gently, though, gentle

The wedding

More tenderly over some of us than others

The way one animal trusts another

A stillness between the hunting and the chase

Before the leaves turn back

For it felt like power

Craft and vision

Crossing

Monomy

If you will, I will

Wild is the wind

The sea, the forest.

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-55).

ISBN:

9780374290269

0374290261

OCLC:

988054999