The Tether: Poems - Brossura

Phillips, Carl

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374528454 ISBN 13: 9780374528454

Casa editrice: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Carl Phillips is the author of four books of poems, including Pastoral and From the Devotions, a finalist for the National Book Award. He is an associate professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0374528454
• ISBN 13: 9780374528454
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile