Wild Is the Wind - Couverture souple

Phillips, Carl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374538247 ISBN 13 : 9780374538248

Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2019

Synopsis

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets

"What has restlessness been for?"

In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named--love at once restless, reckless, and yet desired for its potential to bring stability. In the process, he pitches estrangement against communion, examines the past as history versus the past as memory, and reflects on the past's capacity both to teach and to mislead us--also to make us hesitate in the face of love, given the loss and damage that are, often enough, love's fallout. How "to say no to despair"? How to take perhaps that greatest risk, the risk of believing in what offers no guarantee? These poems that, in their wedding of the philosophical, meditative, and lyric modes, mark a new stage in Phillips's remarkable work, stand as further proof that "if Carl Phillips had not come onto the scene, we would have needed to invent him. His idiosyncratic style, his innovative method, and his unique voice are essential steps in the evolution of the craft" (Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review).

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: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374538247
• ISBN 13: 9780374538248
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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