Riding Westward - Couverture souple

Phillips, Carl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374530823 ISBN 13 : 9780374530822

Editeur : Fsg Adult, 2007

Synopsis

In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral crisis.

The singer turning this and that way, as if watching the song itself
--the words to the song--leave him, as he
lets each go, the wind carrying most of it,
some of the words, falling, settling into
instead that larger darkness, where the smaller

darknesses that our lives were lie softly down."
--from "Riding Westward"

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? What is the difference, Phillips asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carl Phillips is the author of many books of poetry, including Scattered Snows, to the North and Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fsg Adult
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374530823
• ISBN 13: 9780374530822
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible