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The Rest of Love : Poems
The Rest of Love Poems
Author: Carl Phillips, Carl Phillips
Striking new poems from a writer whose "lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers." (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review) — The light, for as far as — I can see, is that of any number of late — afternoons I remember still: how the light — seemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living — insider it,...  more »

that one clear note it gives.

--from "Late Apollo III"

In The Rest of Love, his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to believe: Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off facing up to, even briefly, the hard truths we're nevertheless attracted to? Phillips's signature terse line and syntax enact this constant tension between abandon and control; following his impeccable interior logic, "passionately austere" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post Book World), Phillips plumbs the myths we make and return to in the name of desire-physical, emotional, and spiritual.
ISBN-13: 9780374529628
ISBN-10: 0374529620
Publication Date: 1/12/2005
Pages: 80
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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