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Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poetry: A Luminous Journey of Self-Discovery

I’m a song, changing. I’m a light

rain falling through a vast

darkness toward a different

darkness.

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Then the War, celebrated American poet Carl Phillips continues his ongoing quest of self-discovery and exploration. Written amidst rising racial conflict and uncertainty in the United States, these poems delve deeper into Phillips’s signature landscape: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the further we venture, the more challenging it becomes to recall our origins and motivations.

Then the War showcases a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the past thirteen years, including his lyric prose memoir, Among the Trees, and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures. Throughout this luminous collection, Phillips rejects pessimism, advocating instead for the profound revolutionary potential of tenderness and human connection. He conjures a spell against indifference and the temptations of nostalgia, offering a powerful testament to the importance of self-reckoning.

This essential volume solidifies Carl Phillips’s position as an ever-evolving, indispensable voice in contemporary poetry, as he fearlessly illuminates the path toward understanding and transformation.

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**WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY** ** A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s* Then the War* *** I’m a song, changing. I’m a light* *rain falling through a vast* *darkness toward a different* *darkness.* Carl 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. 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 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* 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*. Ultimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. *Then* *the War* is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry.

Book Author

Carl Phillips

Format

Ebooks

ISBN-13

9780374603779

Language

English

Pages

205

Publication Date

02-01-2022

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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