The Rest of Love

Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book The Rest of Love by Carl Phillips, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: Carl Phillips ISBN: 9781466878938
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: August 26, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Carl Phillips
ISBN: 9781466878938
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: August 26, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

The light, for as far as
I can see, is that of any number of late

afternoons I remember still: how the light
seemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living
insider it, waiting - I'd heard all about

that one clear note it gives.
--from "Late Apollo III"

In The Rest of Love, his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to believe: Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off facing up to, even briefly, the hard truths we're nevertheless attracted to? Phillips's signature terse line and syntax enact this constant tension between abandon and control; following his impeccable interior logic, "passionately austere" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post Book World), Phillips plumbs the myths we make and return to in the name of desire--physical, emotional, and spiritual.

The Rest of Love is a 2004 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

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The light, for as far as
I can see, is that of any number of late

afternoons I remember still: how the light
seemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living
insider it, waiting - I'd heard all about

that one clear note it gives.
--from "Late Apollo III"

In The Rest of Love, his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to believe: Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off facing up to, even briefly, the hard truths we're nevertheless attracted to? Phillips's signature terse line and syntax enact this constant tension between abandon and control; following his impeccable interior logic, "passionately austere" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post Book World), Phillips plumbs the myths we make and return to in the name of desire--physical, emotional, and spiritual.

The Rest of Love is a 2004 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

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