Carl Phillips (1) (1959–)
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Carl Phillips is the author of four books of poems, including "Pastoral" & "From the Devotions", a finalist for the National Book Award. He is an associate professor of English & of African & Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Werke von Carl Phillips
Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Herausgeber — 12 Exemplare
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 751 Exemplare
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Mitwirkender — 114 Exemplare
Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing (2005) — Mitwirkender — 81 Exemplare
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Mitwirkender — 32 Exemplare
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality (2011) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
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- Phillips, Carl
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- 1959-07-23
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- USA
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- Everett, Washington, USA
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- Washington University in St. Louis
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- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [2001])
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2013)
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On a first reading my favorite of these poems is "On Being Asked To Be More Specific When It Comes To Longing", a poem about either love or existential meaning, maybe both. In the poem, the speaker comes into a meadow of silverrod plants, "each stem briefly an angled argument against despair, then only weeds by a better name again", and stumbles through the twilight, his actions "like taking a horsewhip to a swarm of bees, that they might more easily disperse", until finally he comes to a sort of revelation "from the smudged edge of all that seemed to be left of what we'd called belief, once", seeing the human body "made out of a ruin a light" used to both find ourselves and each other, for "when afraid, what is faith, but to make a gift of yourself - give; and you shall receive", he concludes, quoting from the gospel of Luke.
But there's so much more; a Phillips collection always rewards continuous returns, letting the waves wash over and break, and recede, and wash over and break, and recede... a rhythmical pattern within that is deeply true.… (mehr)