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Books by Carl Phillips
  | | Pale Colors in a Tall Field Poems by Carl Phillips Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2020 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-22905-4, ISBN: 0-374-22905-8 "A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up o ..." |
 | | The Art of Daring Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2014 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-681-1, ISBN: 1-55597-681-6 "The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writingIn seven insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditates on the craft of poetry, its capacity for making a space for possibility and inquiry. What does it mean to give shapelessness a form? How can a poem explore both the natural world and the inner world? Phillips demonstrates the restless qual ..." |
 | | Double Shadow(Reprint) Poems by Carl Phillips Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2012 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53315-1, ISBN: 0-374-53315-6 "A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak LowComparing any human life to "a restless choir" of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, 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 ou ..." |
 | | The Tether Poems by Carl Phillips Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52845-4, ISBN: 0-374-52845-4 "Graceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill."Like something broken of wing,lying there.Other than breathing's rise, catch,release,a silence, as of some especially woundedanimal that, nevertheless, stillis conscious,you can seestraight through the openeye to where instinct falters becausefor once it has comedivided"--from "Chamber Music"In the art of falconry, during training the tether between the gloved fi ..." |
 | | Pastoral(1st Edition) Poems by Carl Phillips Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-298-1, ISBN: 1-55597-298-5 "Carl Phillips is the author of nine previous books of poems, including "Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006";" Riding Westward"; and "The Rest of Love," a National Book Award finalist. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. Phillips here creates a shadowy inner landscape, one where the field is the heart, and the heart itself has a beautifully yet often treacherously flawed darkness that each of us--believing in the p ..." |
 | | Quiver of Arrows(1st Edition) Selected Poems, 1986-2006 by Carl Phillips Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2007 by Fsg Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53078-5, ISBN: 0-374-53078-5 "Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips's work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Hailed from the beginning of his career for a poetry provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft, Phillips has in the course of eight critically acclaimed collec ..." |
 | | Coin of the Realm Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry by Carl Phillips Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-401-5, ISBN: 1-55597-401-5 "The Award-winning poet Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority, identity, and beauty in these sensual and deeply intelligent essaysThe "coin of the realm" is, classically, the currency that for any culture most holds value. In art, as in life, the poet Carl Phillips argues, that currency includes beauty, risk, and authority-values of meaning and complexity that all too often go disregarded. Together, these essays become an inval ..." |
 | | Silverchest Poems by Carl Phillips Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53433-2, ISBN: 0-374-53433-0 "A bracingly beautiful new collection from the author of Double Shadow"After the afterlife, there's an afterlife."In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves, intentional and not, can lead not only to a kind of wisdom but also to renewal, maybe even joy, if we're willing to commit fully to a life in which "I love you / means what exactly?" In po ..." |
 | | Silverchest Poems by Carl Phillips Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2013 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-26121-4, ISBN: 0-374-26121-0 "“After / the afterlife, there’s an afterlife.” In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves, intentional and not, can lead not only to a kind of wisdom but also to renewal, maybe even joy, if we’re willing to commit fully to a life in which “I love you / means what, exactly?” In poems shot through with his signature mix of eros, restless energy, ..." |
 | | Speak Low(1st Edition) Poems by Carl Phillips Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2010 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53216-1, ISBN: 0-374-53216-8 "Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft. Over the course of nine critically acclaimed collections, he has generated a sustained meditation on the restless and ever-shifting myth of human identity. ..." |
 | | The Rest of Love(Reprint) Poems by Carl Phillips Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 2004 by Fsg Adult Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52962-8, ISBN: 0-374-52962-0 "Striking new poems from a writer whose "lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers." (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review)The light, for as far asI can see, is that of any number of late afternoons I remember still: how the lightseemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been livinginsider it, waiting - I'd heard all about that one clear note it gives. --from "Late Apollo III"In The Rest of Love, his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines t ..." |
 | | Firsts 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Carl Phillips, Yale University Press Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24316-1, ISBN: 0-300-24316-2 "A masterfully curated collection, drawn from a century of works in the acclaimed Yale Series of Younger Poets The Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Its winners include some of the most influential voices in American poetry, including Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Margaret Walker, Carolyn Forché, and Robert Hass. In celebration of the prize’s centennial, this collection presents three s ..." |
 | | Rock Harbor Poems by Carl Phillips Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52885-0, ISBN: 0-374-52885-3 "Wind as a face gone red with blowing,oceans whose end is broken stitchery--swim of sea-dragon, dolphin,shimmer-and-coil, invitation. . . . You Knowthe kind of map I mean. Countries asdistant as they are believable . . .--from "Halo"Carl Phillips lyric explorations of longing and devotion, castigation and mercy, are unrivaled in contemporary poetry.In Rock Harbor, his sixth book, Phillips visits those spaces, both physical and psychologi ..." |
 | | Philoctetes(1st Edition) (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Carl Phillips Sophocles, Diskin Clay, E. A. Sophocles, August Sophocles Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513657-9, ISBN: 0-19-513657-8 "Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introd ..." |
 | | Pale Colors in a Tall Field Poems (Paperback) by Carl Phillips Paperback, Published 2021 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53935-1, ISBN: 0-374-53935-9 |
 | | Reconnaissance(Reprint) Poems by Carl Phillips, Jeff Clark Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2016 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53655-8, ISBN: 0-374-53655-4 "A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most respected poets . . .There’sa trembling inside the both of us, there’s a trembling, inside us both The territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely “what the light falls through,” “suffering [seems] in fact for nothing,” and maybe “all we do is all we can do.” In the face of this, Carl Phillips, reconsidering ..." |
 | | Riding Westward(1st Edition) Poems by Carl Phillips Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53082-2, ISBN: 0-374-53082-3 "The singer turning this and that way, as if watching the song itself--the words to the song--leave him, as helets each go, the wind carrying most of it,some of the words, falling, settling intoinstead that larger darkness, where the smallerdarknesses 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 ..." |
 | | From The Devotions (Signed First Edition) by Carl Phillips Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 2002 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-263-9, ISBN: 1-55597-263-2 "With From the Devotions, Carl Phillips takes us even further into that dangerous space he has already made his own, where body and soul--ever restless--come explosively together. Speaking to a balance between decorum and pain, he offers here a devotional poetry that argues for faith, even without the comforting gods or the organized structures of revealed truth. Neither sage nor saint nor prophet, the poet is the listener, the mourner, ..." |
 | | Global Literacies(1st Edition) Lessons on Business Leadership and National Cultures by Robert H. Rosen, Carl Phillips, Etc. Robert Rosen, Marshall Singer, Patricia Digh, Brian Friedman Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2000 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85902-6, ISBN: 0-684-85902-5 "Throughout the world, languages differ, but the business questions are the same. In French and Japanese, Hebrew and English, executives are asking, "How can I survive and thrive in the borderless, global marketplace?" For answers, the authors of Global Literacies went straight to the leaders themselves -- the CEOs of thousands of corporations around the globe. Two lessons emerged. First, there are leadership universals that every exec ..." |
 | | The Education of Nevada Duncan (Family Business) by Weber, Carl, Phillips, C. N Softcover, Published 2022 by Kensington ISBN-13: 978-1-64556-405-8, ISBN: 1-64556-405-3 |
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