Wild is the wind / Carl Phillips.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 55 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374290269
- 0374290261
- Poems. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 811.6 P558 | Checked out | 07/08/2024 | 33111008539724 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets
"What has restlessness been for?"
In Wild Is the Wind , Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named--love at once restless, reckless, and yet desired for its potential to bring stability. In the process, he pitches estrangement against communion, examines the past as history versus the past as memory, and reflects on the past's capacity both to teach and to mislead us--also to make us hesitate in the face of love, given the loss and damage that are, often enough, love's fallout. How "to say no to despair"? How to take perhaps that greatest risk, the risk of believing in what offers no guarantee? These poems that, in their wedding of the philosophical, meditative, and lyric modes, mark a new stage in Phillips's remarkable work, stand as further proof that "if Carl Phillips had not come onto the scene, we would have needed to invent him. His idiosyncratic style, his innovative method, and his unique voice are essential steps in the evolution of the craft" (Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review ).
Poems.
How do we say no to despair, and instead take the risk of believing in something that offers no guarantee? Phillips reflects on the instability of life and love, and examines the past as both history and memory. Explore how the past can teach us and mislead us, and make us hesitate in the face of love.
Courtship -- Swimming -- Brothers in arms -- Musculature -- Givingly -- The distance and the spoils -- Not the waves as they make their way forward -- Gold leaf -- Several birds in hand but the rest go free -- Stray -- Revolver -- The dark no softer than it was before -- From a bonfire -- And love you too -- What I see is the light falling all around us -- Black and copper in a crush of flowers -- If you go away -- What the lost are for -- Rockabye -- His master's voice -- That it might save, or drown them -- Gently, though, gentle -- The wedding -- More tenderly over some of us than others -- The way one animal trusts another -- A stillness between the hunting and the chase -- Before the leaves turn back -- For it felt like power -- Craft and vision -- Crossing -- Monomy -- If you will, I will -- Wild is the wind -- The sea, the forest.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-55).