Then the War
And Selected Poems 2007-2020
Published on 24. February 2022
224 pages
978-1-80017-230-2 (ISBN)
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2023
Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020 is two books in one: a representative selection from seven of Carl Phillips's innovative earlier collections and a complete new book of poems, providing a powerful introduction to European readers. A seemingly gentle but resolute attention to the things of this world evokes the joyful and painful elements in the contemporary human condition, characterised by loneliness and an unquenchable thirst for love. He is a poet who knows the rules and bends or breaks them, a master of syntax and prosody, avoiding convention and pursuing the lines of desire.
In a starred review of this book, Publishers Weekly said, 'These lyrically rich, insightful poems are full of palpable aching [...] and a human urge to understand. This remarkable compendium is a testament to the spirit of Phillips's work.'
Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020 is two books in one: a representative selection from seven of Carl Phillips's innovative earlier collections and a complete new book of poems, providing a powerful introduction to European readers. A seemingly gentle but resolute attention to the things of this world evokes the joyful and painful elements in the contemporary human condition, characterised by loneliness and an unquenchable thirst for love. He is a poet who knows the rules and bends or breaks them, a master of syntax and prosody, avoiding convention and pursuing the lines of desire.
In a starred review of this book, Publishers Weekly said, 'These lyrically rich, insightful poems are full of palpable aching [...] and a human urge to understand. This remarkable compendium is a testament to the spirit of Phillips's work.'
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-80017-230-2 (9781800172302)
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Carl Phillips is the author of seventeen books of poetry, most recently Scattered Snows, to the North (Carcanet, 2024). Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Carcanet, 2022) won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022). After more than thirty years of teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, he lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Author photo taken by Reston Allen.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- THEN THE WAR
- 1
- Invasive Species
- Of California
- That the Gods Must Rest
- The Enchanted Bluff
- Little Shields, in Starlight
- Morning in the Bowl of Night
- Blue-Winged Warbler
- Not Wild, Merely Free
- He Didn't Raise Hand or Voice
- In a Field, at Sunset
- The Difficulty
- In a Low Voice, Slowly
- Fixed Shadow, Moving Water
- Somewhere, right now, a hawk
- Sing a Darkness
- Among the Trees
- 2
- While Night Still Keeps Us
- Then the War
- As the Rain Comes Down Harder
- Something to Believe In
- The Blue Door
- Rough Surf in Moonlight
- Like the Sweet Wet Earth Itself
- On Coming Close
- Electric
- Soft Western Light
- Everything All of It
- Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us
- Only Portions of the Map Still Legibly Survive
- Archery
- Initial Descent
- To Autumn
- Of the Shining Underlife
- Anywhere Like Peace
- Entire Known World So Far
- Night Comes and Passes Over Me
- This Far In
- SELECTED POEMS, 2007-2020
- FROM Speak Low
- Speak Low
- Mirror, Window, Mirror
- Captivity
- In a Perfect World
- Distortion
- Storm
- Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices
- The Raft
- FROM Double Shadow
- Fascination
- Continuous Until We Stop
- The Grass Not Being Flesh, Nor Flesh the Grass
- The Need for Dreaming
- Almost Tenderly
- Glory On
- Civilization
- Immaculate Each Leaf, and Every Flower
- Heaven and Earth
- FROM Silverchest
- So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open
- After the Afterlife
- Black Swan on Water, in a Little Rain
- Neon
- Your Body Down in Gold
- Anyone Who Had a Heart
- Dominion
- But Waves, They Scatter
- Silverchest
- FROM Reconnaissance
- Reconnaissance
- The Darker Powers
- Steeple
- Capella
- For Long to Hold
- Foliage
- The Strong by Their Stillness
- Faintly, with Falling Stars
- Spring
- FROM Wild Is the Wind
- Swimming
- Brothers in Arms
- Musculature
- Not the Waves as They Make Their Way Forward
- Gold Leaf
- What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us
- If You Go Away
- For It Felt Like Power
- Monomoy
- Wild Is the Wind
- The Sea, the Forest
- FROM Pale Colors in a Tall Field
- On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing
- Pale Colors in a Tall Field
- For Nothing Tender About It
- Dirt Being Dirt
- A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here
- Yet No Less Grateful
- Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors
- Overheard, Under a Dark Enchantment
- If It Must Be Winter
- Defiance
- Star Map with Action Figures
- And If I Fall
- Dangerous Only When Disturbed
- Wake Up
- On Triumph
- Unbridled
- We Turn Here
- To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All.
- Reasonable Doubt
- Fine
- And Swept All Visible Signs Away
- Honest in Which Not Gently
- Self
- Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter
- Star Map with Action Figures
- My Monster
- All the Love You've Got
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
