![]() ![]() A new collection of poems from one of Americas most essential, celebra. Of this poem, Phillips says he was contemplating the pressure on poets to be political, on how much is politicized, and, also, the degree to which tenderness can be its own force. Read 9 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Brown’s killing was an inflection point in racial disparity discussions and the continued marginalization of Black people in America. Louis, the city where Michael Brown was shot and killed by police in 2014. He is a professor at Washington University in St. Phillips was, however, thinking of Greek tragedies, which he studied at Harvard as a classics major. The collection was released in the UK on February 24th, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, making its title seem prescient. His many accolades include the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2014, and the Lambda Literary Award for Best Poetry in 2001.įor Oprah Daily, Phillips reads “Fixed Shadow, Moving Water” from Then the War. From The Devotions (1998) and The Rest of Love: Poems (2004) were both finalists for the National Book Award. Two of them, Wild Is the Wind (2018) and Double Shadow (2001), won the L.A. ![]() Carl Phillips has published 16 volumes of poetry, the most recent being Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (FSG). ![]()
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