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Simulacra (Paperback)
Airea D. Matthews; Foreword by Carl Phillips
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Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and
rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed
series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young
American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of
want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems
cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a
racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation,
striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by
differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication.
In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book
"rollicking, destabilizing, at once intellectually sly and piercing
and finally poignant." This is poetry that breaks new literary
ground, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can
and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid
bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the
world.
"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).
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most
critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phillips's new poetry collection,
Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of
thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both
timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in
the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here,
the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various
colors, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more
vivid, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems
in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view
kaleidoscopically, enacting the self's multiplicity and the
difficult shifts required as our lives, in turn, shift. This is one
of Phillips's most tender, dynamic, and startling books yet.
An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing
life a more complex and cooperative venture “Illuminating, deeply
endearing essays.â€â€”Ron Charles, Washington Post  “A
lovely, loving letter to aspiring writers.â€â€”Diego Báez,
Booklist  In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the
award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned
about the writing life, an “apprenticeship to what can never
fully be mastered.†Drawing on forty years of teaching and
mentoring emerging writers, he weaves his experiences as a poet
with the necessary survival skills, including ambition, stamina,
silence, politics, practice, audience, and community. Â In
the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, Rainer Maria
Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, and Marcus Aurelius’s
Meditations, this is an invaluable companion for writers at every
stage of their journey. Phillips’s book serves as a partner in
speculation and an invitation to embrace mystery.
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale
Series of Younger Poets volume is a lyrical and polyvocal
exploration of what it means to fight for yourself "Bailey invites
us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman
of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery,
brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological."
-Carl Phillips, from the Foreword "Desiree C. Bailey sings true in
her debut. Wherever this voice goes a Caribbean sun travels with it
transfiguring what a maroon might overhear-a call awaiting
response."-Yusef Komunyakaa The 115th volume of the Yale Series of
Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for
belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean
folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America.
Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic
narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian
Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora,
probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood.
Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey's "poems argue for
hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and
they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of
steady defiance."
Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and
cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry collection wrestles with the
interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge
from the threat of depression and death through love and desire.
Hughes draws readers into a Seattle that is heavily entrenched in
violent anti-Blackness, and full of vulnerable and personal
encounters from both the speaker's past and present. With reverent
and careful imagery, Hughes fashions deeply saturated, tender
vignettes that reckon relationships between family and friends,
lovers, nature, and the police-state. A Shiver in the Leaves is
stunningly cinematic in its layered portrayal of the never-ending
dualities of a queer Black poet's life in the city. Hughes's
interrogation of selfhood renders a sharply intimate and viscerally
powerful reimagining of what it means to be alive in a body, and
what it can mean to live.
With "From the Devotions," Carl Phillips takes us even further into
that dangerous space he has already made his own, where body and
soul--ever restless--come explosively together. Speaking to a
balance between decorum and pain, he offers here a devotional
poetry that argues for faith, even without the comforting gods or
the organized structures of revealed truth. Neither sage nor saint
nor prophet, the poet is the listener, the mourner, the one who has
some access to the maddening quarters of human consciousness, the
wry Sibyl. "From the Devotions" is deeply felt, highly intelligent,
and unsentimental, and cements Phillips's reputation as a poet of
enormous talent and depth.
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Cornish Studies Volume 19 (Paperback)
Philip Payton; Contributions by Stuart Dunmore, David Everett, Jonathan Howlett, Sharon Lowenna, …
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The nineteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the
only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the
past and present of a nation. 'Cornish Studies' has consistently -
and successfully - sought to investigate and understand the complex
nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications
for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall. The latest
volume in this internationally acclaimed paperback series, Cornish
Studies: Nineteen examines the Duchy of Cornwall in the medieval
period and discusses the Cornish language (including its
significance as an icon of contemporary Cornish identity), as well
as critically evaluating the early Cornish-language revivalists and
analysing the experiences of Cornish women in Cornwall's
nineteenth-century 'Great Emigration'. There is also a review of
recent books on Californian mining towns in the 1930s and the
'Anglican imagination' of John Betjeman.
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Blue Yodel (Paperback)
Ansel Elkins; Foreword by Carl Phillips
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Winner of the 2014 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Originated in
1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the
age of forty, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize is the oldest
annual literary award presented in the United States. Ansel
Elkins's poetry collection, Blue Yodel, is the 109th volume to be
so honored. Esteemed poet and competition judge Carl Phillips
praises Elkins for her "arresting use of persona," calling her
poems "razor-edged in their intelligence, Southern Gothic in their
sensibility." In her imaginative and haunting debut collection,
Elkins introduces readers to a multitude of characters whose
"otherness" has condemned them to live on the margins of society.
She weaves blues, ballads, folklore, and storytelling into an
intricate tapestry that depicts the violence, poverty, and
loneliness of the Deep South, as well as the compassion,
generosity, and hope that brings light to people in their darkest
times. The blue yodel heard throughout this diverse compilation is
a raw, primal, deeply felt expression of the human experience,
calling on us to reach out to the isolated and disenfranchised and
to find the humanity in every person.
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.'
A stunning new collection of poems from the author of "Speak
Low"
Comparing any human life to "a restless choir" of impulses
variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips,
in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow that a life casts
forth: "now risk, and now / faintheartedness." In poems that both
embody and inhabit this double shadow, risk and faintheartedness
prove to have the power equally to rescue us from ourselves and to
destroy us. Spare, haunted, and haunting, yet not without hope,
"Double Shadow" argues for life as a wilderness through which
there's only the questing forward--with no regrets and no looking
back. "Double Shadow" is a finalist for the 2011 National Book
Award for PoetryWinner of the 2011 "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize
for PoetryA "Boston Globe" Best Poetry Book of 2011
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Speak Low (Paperback)
Carl Phillips
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"Speak Low "is the tenth book from one of America's most
distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary
voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its
candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and
innovative in its attention to craft. Over the course of nine
critically acclaimed collections, he has generated a sustained
meditation on the restless and ever-shifting myth of human
identity. Desire and loss, mastery and subjugation, belief and
doubt, sex, animal instinct, human reason: these are among the
lenses through which Phillips examines what it means to be that
most bewildering, irresolvable conundrum, a human being in the
world. These new poems are of a piece with Phillips's previous work
in their characteristic clarity and originality of thought, in
their unsparing approach to morality and psychology, and in both
the strength and startling flexibility of their line. "Speak Low
"is the record of a powerful vision that, in its illumination of
the human condition, has established itself as a necessary step
toward our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first century.
"Quiver of Arrows "is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips's
work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America's
most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary
voices. Hailed from the beginning of his career for a poetry
provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at
once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft, Phillips
has in the course of eight critically acclaimed collections
generated a sustained meditation on the restless and ever-shifting
myth of human identity. Desire and loss, mastery and subjugation,
belief and doubt, sex, animal instinct, human reason: these are
among the lenses through which Phillips examines what it means to
be that most bewildering, irresolvable conundrum, a human being in
the world. Phillips's sensibility as he questions morality,
psychology, and our notions of responsibility is as startlingly
original as the poems themselves, whose exacting standards for the
line's flexibility and whose argument for a versatile, more
muscular syntax bring to American poetry "something not unlike a
new musical scale" ("The Miami Herald"). "Quiver of Arrows "is the
record of a powerful vision that, in its illumination of the human
condition, has established itself as a necessary step toward our
understanding of who we are in the twenty-first century.
What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when
the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality
from what is desired? In "Riding Westward," Carl Phillips wields
his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably
his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral
crisis. What is the difference, he asks, between good and evil,
cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of
the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it
means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation
on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with
sexual and moral conduct.
Striking new poems from a writer whose "lyric gift . . . outstrips
all diversionary maneuvers." (Carol Moldaw, "The Antioch Review")
"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.
Wind as a face gone red with blowing, oceans whose end is broken stitchery--
swim of sea-dragon, dolphin, shimmer-and-coil, invitation. . . . You Know the kind of map I mean. Countries as
distant as they are believable . . .
--from "Halo"
Carl Phillips lyric explorations of longing and devotion, castigation and mercy, are unrivaled in contemporary poetry.
Here, in his sixth book, Phillips visits those spaces, both physical and psychological, where risk and safety coincide, and considers what it might mean to live at the nexus of the two. Sifting among the upturned evidence of crisis, from Roman Empire to westward expansion, from the turn of a lover's face to the harbor of the book's title--a place of calm fashioned of the very rock that can mean disaster--these poems negotiate and map out the impulse toward rescue and away from it. Phillips's pooling, cascading lines are the unsuppressed routes across his unique poetic landscape, daring and seductive in their readiness to drift and reverse as the terrain demands.
Graceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill.
As I understand it, I could call him. Though it would help, it is not required that I give him a name first. Also, nothing says he stops, then, or must turn. --from "The Figure, the Boundary, the Light"
In the art of falconry, during training the tether between the gloved fist and the raptor's anklets is gradually lengthened and eventually unnecessary. In these new lyric poems, Carl Phillips considers the substance of connection -- between lover and beloved, mind and body, talon and perch -- and ts the cable of mutual trust between soaring figure and shadowed ground.
Contemporary literature can perhaps claim no poetry more clearly allegorical than that of Carl Phillips, whose four collections have turned frequently to nature, myth, and history for illustration; still, readers know the primary attributes of his work to be its physicality, grace, and disarming honesty about desire and faith. In The Tether, his fifth book, Phillips's characteristically cascading poetic line is leaner and more dramatic than ever."
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Eruv (Paperback)
Eryn Green; Foreword by Carl Phillips
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Winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Eryn Green's
Eruv is the latest winner of the oldest annual literary award in
the United States, which originated in 1919 to showcase the works
of exceptional American poets under the age of forty. Green joins
an esteemed roster of past winners that includes Adrienne Rich,
John Ashbery, W. S. Merwin, and Robert Hass, and as Carl Phillips,
competition judge and chancellor of the American Academy of Poets,
points out, this collection "reminds us how essential wilderness is
to poetry-a wilderness in terms of how form and language both
reinvent and get reinvented." Taking its title from the Hebrew word
for a ritual enclosure that opens from private into public spaces,
Eruv includes poems of love, sadness, and pathos while celebrating
the power of ritual and untamed landscapes. Just as a larger home
can be fashioned out of communally shared alleyways and courtyards,
with passages enabling movement from one world to another, Green's
poems provide a similar doorway into a deeper understanding of
ourselves.
Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize "Weaves
together descriptions of experiences of immigration as a
Chinese-American and of racism, mental wellness, and gender from a
queer and trans perspective."-Publishers Weekly 2020 Lambda
Literary Awards finalist transgender poetry category How can a
search for self-knowledge reveal art as a site of community?
Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of
immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness,
and of gender from a queer and trans perspective. Between the
contrast of high lyric and direct prose poems, Yanyi invites the
reader to consider how to speak with multiple identities through
trauma, transition, and ordinary life. These poems constitute an
artifact of a groundbreaking and original author whose work
reflects a long journey self-guided through tarot, therapy, and the
arts. Foregrounding the power of friendship, Yanyi's poems converse
with friends as much as with artists both living and dead, from
Agnes Martin to Maggie Nelson to Robin Coste Lewis. This
instructive collection gives voice to the multifaceted humanity
within all of us and inspires attention, clarity, and hope through
art-making and community.
Winner of the 2015 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Noah Warren's
brilliant collection of poetry, The Destroyer in the Glass, is the
110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the
oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores
universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection
in a series of tightly crystallized poems that question the damage
we have done-to ourselves and to others-in the pursuit of knowledge
and a stable idea of who we are. Balancing a tendency toward form,
rhyme, and allusion with a freer, expressive style, this
exceptional young poet charts the development of the self through,
by, and in language. Since 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets
has launched the careers of poets as esteemed and varied as
Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Robert Hass. Judge Carl Phillips
praises The Destroyer in the Glass for "its wedding of intellect,
heart, sly humor, and formal dexterity, all in the service of
negotiating those moments when an impulse toward communion with
others competes with an instinct for a more isolated self."
A masterfully curated collection, drawn from a century of works in
the acclaimed Yale Series of Younger Poets The Yale Younger Poets
prize is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Its
winners include some of the most influential voices in American
poetry, including Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Margaret Walker,
Carolyn Forche, and Robert Hass. In celebration of the prize's
centennial, this collection presents three selections from each
Younger Poets volume. It serves as both a testament to the enduring
power and significance of poetic expression and an exploration of
the ways poetry has evolved over the past century. In addition to
judiciously assembling this wide-ranging anthology, Carl Phillips
provides an introduction to the history and impact of the Yale
Younger Poets prize and its winners in the wider context of
American poetry, including the evolving roles of race, gender, and
sexual orientation.
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