Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2023Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020 is two books in one:
a representative selection from seven of Carl Phillips&apos
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, &apos
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&apos
'The writing dazzles with transcendent metaphors, complex connections and linguistic flourishes' - Washington Post
'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.' - Publishers Weekly
Author
About Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips is the author of fifteen previous books of poetry, most recently Pale Colors in a Tall Field and Wild Is the Wind, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other honors include the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets.
Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing, and he has translated the Philoctetes of Sophocles. He teaches at Washington University in St Louis.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2023Then 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.
Then the War features in the following genres: Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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Then the War was written by Carl Phillips and published by Carcanet Poetry
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