Format:
Book
Title:
Double shadow / Carl Phillips.
Author:
Phillips, Carl, 1959-
Call Number:
811 Phillips
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2011.
Description:
58 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
Comparing any human life to a "restless choir" of impulses, variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh collection of poems, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: "now risk, and now / faintheartedness." In poems that both embody and inhabit this double shadow, risk and faintheartedness prove to have the power equally to rescue us from ourselves and to destroy us. Spare, haunted, and haunting, yet not without hope, Double shadow argues for life as a wilderness through which there's only the questing forward--with no regrets and no looking back. --Book jacket.
Subjects:
American poetry.
Genre:
American poetry -- 21st century.
Contents:
First night at sea -- Ransom -- Next stop, Arcadia -- Fascination -- Sky coming forward -- Continuous until we stop -- The grass not being flesh, nor flesh the grass -- The heat of the sun -- Through an opening -- After the thunder, before the rain -- The shore -- The need for dreaming -- Comes the fall -- Master and slave -- Clear, cloudless -- Roses -- Night -- On horseback -- Almost tenderly -- Tell me a story -- Dark angel -- As if lit from beneath, and tossing -- Glory on -- My bluest shirt -- Of the rippling surface -- The gristmill -- After winning the West -- Sacrifice is a different animal altogether -- Like a lion -- Civilization -- Immaculate each leaf, and every flower -- The life you save -- Heaven and earth -- Cathedral.
ISBN:
9780374141578 (alk. paper)
0374141576 (alk. paper)
9780374533151 (pbk.)