Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips
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Carl Phillips is the author of ten previous books of poems, including Speak Low; Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986–2006; Riding Westward; and The Rest of Love, a National Book Award finalist. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Carl Phillips reads his poem "Island"

"Listen to this poetry reading to hear poet Carl Phillips read his poem ""Island,"" from his poetry collection Riding Westward. Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human. Learn more about the book Riding Westward at http://us.macmillan.com/ridingwestward/CarlPhillips Read more about poet Carl Phillips at http://us.macmillan.com/author/carlphillips"

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Double Shadow
Double Shadow

Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak Low Comparing any human life to “a restless choir”...


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Speak Low
Speak Low

Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive—and one of poetry’s most essential—contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for...


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Riding Westward
Riding Westward

Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

What happens when the world as we’ve known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able—or less willing—to distinguish reality from what is desired? In...


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Quiver of Arrows
Quiver of Arrows

Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips’s work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America’s most distinctive—and one of...


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The Rest of Love
The Rest of Love

Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Striking new poems from a writer whose "lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers." (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review) The light, for as far...


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Rock Harbor
Rock Harbor

Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Wind as a face gone red with blowing, oceans whose end is broken stitchery-- swim of sea-dragon, dolphin, shimmer-and-coil, invitation. . . . You...


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The Tether
The Tether

Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Graceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill. As I understand it, I could call him. Though it would help, it is not required...


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