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The Rest of Love
The Rest of Love: Poems | Carl Phillips
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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. The Rest of Love is a 2004 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.
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Picked this up at a local book swap to give it a go. I try to read poetry with a pot of tea 1st thing in the morn before picking up my ph to try & get my brain going. He is insightful in terms of relationships. My fav poems were ‘Sudden scattering of leaves all gold‘, ‘Sunset, with severed head of Orpheus‘, ‘Here, on earth‘ & ‘Like cuttings for a wreath of praise and ransom‘ & ‘Hymns and fragments‘ brought me undone. Some quite sexy too eg. North.

BarbaraBB Beautiful pic 👌🏽 2y
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