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![]() ![]() Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007–2020Ī new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the WarĬarl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing quest” Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. See a book here that you’d like to review for us?Ĭontact us, and we’ll talk about the possibility of a review. ![]() (Where possible, we have also tried to include a review/interview related to each of the new book releases …) Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out: ![]()
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