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Then the WarAnd Selected Poems 2007-2020Carl Phillips10% off all versions
Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, American, BAME
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (224 pages) (Pub. Feb 2022) 9781800172296 £14.99 £13.49 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Feb 2022) 9781800172302 £11.99 £10.79 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2023 Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007–2020 is two books in one: a representative selection from seven of Carl Phillips's innovative earlier collections and a complete new book of poems, providing a powerful introduction to European readers. A seemingly gentle but resolute attention to the things of this world evokes the joyful and painful elements in the contemporary human condition, characterised by loneliness and an unquenchable thirst for love. He is a poet who knows the rules and bends or breaks them, a master of syntax and prosody, avoiding convention and pursuing the lines of desire. In a starred review of this book, Publishers Weekly said, 'These lyrically rich, insightful poems are full of palpable aching [...] and a human urge to understand. This remarkable compendium is a testament to the spirit of Phillips's work.'
Awards won by Carl Phillips
Winner, 2023 The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
(Then the War) '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.'
'A welcome collection of earlier and new work by an unusually far-reaching poetic explorer.'Carol Rumens, The Poetry Review Carol Rumens, The Guardian where 'For Nothing Tender About It' was Poem of the Week '...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 |
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