| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
70 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-70). |
| Summary |
Explores the dichotomy between belief and disbelief, and the human need to believe, in a poetic study of the tension between abandon and control, the physical and the spiritual. 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." |
| Contents |
Custom -- Tower Window -- Late, in a Time of Splendor -- Trophy -- Singing -- The Rest of Love -- Vow -- Like Stitches Where the Moths Have Made an Opening -- Late Apollo -- Mastery -- All It Takes -- In Stone -- Conduct -- White Dog -- Fervor -- In Love -- The Rescue -- Sudden Scattering of Leaves, All Gold -- The Way As Promised -- North -- Hymns and Fragments -- Fresco: Cove and Spur -- If a Wilderness -- Sunset, with Severed Head of Orpheus -- Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm -- The Grackle -- Pleasure -- Here, on Earth -- Anthem -- Like Cuttings for a Wreath of Praise and Ransom -- Sanctum -- Fray -- Crew. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| ISBN |
0374249539 (alk. paper) |
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9780374249533 (alk. paper) |
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