"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 that is 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 - and 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 his
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).
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