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Carl Phillips is the author of 16 books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Carcanet, 2022), which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022). After more than thirty years of teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, he lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Author photo taken by Reston Allen.

'Perhaps no poet has sought so hard and so long, in such a variety of grammatical forms, for ways to depict such familiar situations - a hookup, a breakup, a wish to turn back time.'

Stephanie Burt, The New York Times

'In Carl Phillips's ravishing new collection, the elegiacal vision, still haunted by an erotics of loss has become enraptured with belatedness... in sinuous complexes of metaphor that revive experiences through the glamour, renegade, melancholy, of their ruins.'

David Woo, LitHub

'Then the War, is a forest-like network of linguistic relationships... ideas are turned over at different angles and that way gather complexity and momentum. Phillips operates in an altogether superior league.'

Carol Rumens, The Poetry Review

'...a poet whose art is among the best representations we have of the modern mind in all its wonder and melancholy uncertainty.'

Jesse Nathan, McSweeneys

'The 208 pages form a wonderfully compendious introduction to this major US poet. For those who have admired his work in the three decades since his debut, they are glowing confirmation that, as he enters his 60s, Phillips is writing better than ever ... a single project of the utmost immediacy.'

Fiona Sampson, The Guardian

'The writing dazzles with transcendent metaphors, complex connections and linguistic flourishes'
Washington Post

Awards won by Carl Phillips Short-listed, 2024 The T.S. Eliot Prize (Scattered Snows, to the North) Winner, 2023 The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
(Then the War)

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Carl Phillips Books by this author: Scattered Snows, to the North Then the War About Reviews Awards Carl Phillips is the author of 16 books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Carcanet, 2022), which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022). After more than thirty years of teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, he lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Author photo taken by Reston Allen. 'Perhaps no poet has sought so hard and so long, in such a variety of grammatical forms, for ways to depict such familiar situations - a hookup, a breakup, a wish to turn back time.' Stephanie Burt, The New York Times 'In Carl Phillips's ravishing new collection, the elegiacal vision, still haunted by an erotics of loss has become enraptured with belatedness... in sinuous complexes of metaphor that revive experiences through the glamour, renegade, melancholy, of their ruins.' David Woo, LitHub 'Then the War, is a forest-like network of linguistic relationships... ideas are turned over at different angles and that way gather complexity and momentum. Phillips operates in an altogether superior league.' Carol Rumens, The Poetry Review '...a poet whose art is among the best representations we have of the modern mind in all its wonder and melancholy uncertainty.' Jesse Nathan, McSweeneys 'The 208 pages form a wonderfully compendious introduction to this major US poet. For those who have admired his work in the three decades since his debut, they are glowing confirmation that, as he enters his 60s, Phillips is writing better than ever ... a single project of the utmost immediacy.' Fiona Sampson, The Guardian 'The writing dazzles with transcendent metaphors, complex connections and linguistic flourishes' Washington Post Awards won by Carl Phillips Short-listed, 2024 The T.S. Eliot Prize (Scattered Snows, to the North) Winner, 2023 The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (Then the War)	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog PN Review 279: Elegies by Lorna Goodison read more Conjurors: Julian Orde read more Citizen Poet: Eavan Boland read more Library Lives: Stella Halkyard read more Tablets: Dunya Mikhail read more PN Review 278: Set 5: Mondo de Sunbrilo Translated by John Gallas read more
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