Then the war : and selected poems, 2007-2020 / Carl Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Carl, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

209 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Summary:

"Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "ongoing quest"; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips's work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, "Among the Trees," and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures. Ultimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Then the War

Invasive Species

Of California

That the Gods Must Rest

The Enchanted Bluff

Little Shields, in Starlight

Morning in the Bowl of Night

Blue-Winged Warbler

Not Wild, Merely Free

He Didn't Raise Hand or Voice

In a Field, at Sunset

The Difficulty

In a Low Voice, Slowly

Fixed Shadow, Moving Water

Somewhere, right now, a hawk

Sing a Darkness

Among the Trees

2. While Night Still Keeps Us

Then the War

As the Rain Comes Down Harder

Something to Believe In

The Blue Door

Rough Surf in Moonlight

Like the Sweet Wet Earth Itself

On Coming Close

Electric

Soft Western Light

Everything All of It

Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us

Only Portions of the Map Still Legibly Survive

Archery

Initial Descent

To Autumn

Of the Shining Underlife

Anywhere Like Peace

Entire Known World So Far

Night Comes and Passes Over Me

This Far In

SELECTED POEMS, 2007

2020

From: Speak Low

Speak Low

Mirror, Window, Mirror

Captivity

In a Perfect World

Distortion

Storm

Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices

The Raft

From: Double Shadow

Fascination

Continuous Until We Stop

The Grass Not Being Flesh, Nor Flesh the Grass

The Need for Dreaming

Almost Tenderly

Glory On

Civilization

Immaculate Each Leaf, and Every Flower

Heaven and Earth

From: Silverchest

So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open

After the Afterlife

Black Swan on Water, in a Little Rain

Neon

Your Body Down in Gold

Anyone Who Had a Heart

Dominion

But Waves, They Scatter

Silverchest

From: Reconnaissance

Reconnaissance

The Darker Powers

Steeple

Capella

For Long to Hold

Foliage

The Strong by Their Stillness

Faintly, with Falling Stars

Spring

From: Wild Is the Wind

Swimming

Brothers in Arms

Musculature

Not the Waves as They Make Their Way Forward

Gold Leaf

What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us

If You Go Away

For It Felt Like Power

Monomoy

Wild Is the Wind

The Sea, the Forest

From: Pale Colors in a Tall Field

On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing

Pale Colors in a Tall Field

For Nothing Tender About It

Dirt Being Dirt

A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here

Yet No Less Grateful

Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors

Overheard, Under a Dark Enchantment

If It Must Be Winter

Defiance

Star Map with Action Figures

And If I Fall

Dangerous Only When Disturbed

Wake Up

On Triumph

Unbridled

We Turn Here

To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All

Reasonable Doubt

Fine

And Swept All Visible Signs Away

Honest in Which Not Gently

Self

Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter

My Monster

All the Love You've Got.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical notes (pages 197-200) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780374603762

0374603766

OCLC:

1277182463