Double Shadow: Poems (First Edition)

Carl Phillips

ISBN 10: 0374141576 / ISBN 13: 9780374141578

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011

About this Item

First printing, with full number line. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($23.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. REVIEW copy with review card laid in. Nominated for a National Book Award.

Seller Inventory # McClatchy-381

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Double Shadow: Poems (First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374141576
• ISBN 13: 9780374141578
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • National Book Award Nominees

About this title

Synopsis

A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak Low

Comparing 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 ourselves and to destroy us. Spare, haunted, and haunting, yet not without hope, Double Shadow argues for life as a wilderness through which there's only the questing forward―with no regrets and no looking back.

Double Shadow is a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry

A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011

About the Author

Carl Phillips is the author of ten previous books of poems, including Speak Low; 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.