From the Devotions: Poems - Softcover

Phillips, Carl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555972632 ISBN 13: 9781555972639

Publisher: Graywolf Press, 2002

Synopsis

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, the one who has some access to the maddening quarters of human consciousness, the wry Sibyl. From the Devotions is deeply felt, highly intelligent, and unsentimental, and cements Phillips's reputation as a poet of enormous talent and depth.

About this title

About the Author:

Carl Phillips is the author of In the Blood, which won the Morse Poetry Prize, and Cortège, a Finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Lambda Literary Award. The recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, Phillips is associate professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University, St. Louis, where he also directs the creative writing program.

From Library Journal:

Phillips's reputation has been growing, and this third collection confirms him as one of the best poets writing in America today. In quintessentially lyric verse, he investigates love in all its ramifications, both physical and spiritual, and the devastating consequences of its loss. "He constantly reaches for universal `truths,' then rotates them slightly in blinding light until they crystallize into personal reflections," observed LJ's reviewer. The result is intense communion between poet and reader that remains long after the book is closed.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1555972632
• ISBN 13: 9781555972639
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82