Then the war : and selected poems, 2007-2020

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Then the war : and selected poems, 2007-2020 / Carl Phillips.

Phillips, Carl, 1959- (author.).

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ISBN: 9780374603762
ISBN: 0374603766
Physical Description: 209 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical notes (pages 197-200) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Then the war. Among the trees -- Selected poems, 2007-2020. Speak low -- Double shadow -- Silverchest -- Reconnaissance -- Wild is the wind -- Pale colors in a tall field -- Star map with action figures.
Summary, etc.:	"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 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 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."--Amazon.com.

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Then the War : And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Then The War	p. 1
1
	Invasive Species	p. 5
	Of California	p. 6
	That the Gods Must Rest	p. 8
	The Enchanted Bluff	p. 9
	Little Shields, in Starlight	p. 11
	Morning in the Bowl of Night	p. 12
	Blue-Winged Warbler	p. 14
	Not Wild, Merely Free	p. 15
	He Didn't Raise Hand or Voice	p. 17
	In a Field, at Sunset	p. 19
	The Difficulty	p. 20
	In a Low Voice, Slowly	p. 21
	Fixed Shadow, Moving Water	p. 22
	Somewhere, right now, a hawk	p. 23
	Sing a Darkness	p. 25
	Among the Trees	p. 27
2
	While Night Still Keeps Us	p. 49
	Then the War	p. 50
	As the Rain Comes Down Harder	p. 52
	Something to Believe In	p. 54
	The Blue Door	p. 55
	Rough Surf in Moonlight	p. 56
	Like the Sweet Wet Earth Itself	p. 57
	On Coming Close	p. 58
	Electric	p. 59
	Soft Western Light	p. 60
	Everything All of It	p. 62
	Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us	p. 64
	Only Portions of the Map Still Legibly Survive	p. 65
	Archery	p. 67
	Initial Descent	p. 69
	To Autumn	p. 70
	Of the Shining Underlife	p. 71
	Anywhere Like Peace	p. 72
	Entire Known World So Far	p. 73
	Night Comes and Passes Over Me	p. 75
	This Far In	p. 77
	From Speak Low
	Speak Low	p. 87
	Mirror, Window, Mirror	p. 88
	Captivity	p. 89
	In a Perfect World	p. 91
	Distortion	p. 92
	Storm	p. 94
	Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices	p. 96
	The Raft	p. 97
	From Double Shadow
	Fascination	p. 101
	Continuous Until We Stop	p. 102
	The Grass Not Being Flesh, Nor Flesh the Grass	p. 103
	The Need for Dreaming	p. 104
	Almost Tenderly	p. 105
	Glory On	p. 106
	Civilization	p. 107
	Immaculate Each Leaf, and Every Flower	p. 110
	Heaven and Earth	p. 112
	From Silverchest
	So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open	p. 115
	After the Afterlife	p. 116
	Black Swan on Water, in a Little Rain	p. 117
	Neon	p. 118
	Your Body Down in Gold	p. 119
	Anyone Who Had a Heart	p. 120
	Dominion	p. 122
	But Waves, They Scatter	p. 123
	Silverchest	p. 124
	From Reconnaissance
	Reconnaissance	p. 127
	The Darker Powers	p. 128
	Steeple	p. 130
	Capella	p. 131
	For Long to Hold	p. 134
	Foliage	p. 135
	The Strong by Their Stillness	p. 136
	Faintly, with Falling Stars	p. 137
	Spring	p. 138
	From Wild Is the Wind
	Swimming	p. 141
	Brothers in Arms	p. 142
	Musculature	p. 143
	Not the Waves as They Make Their Way Forward	p. 144
	Gold Leaf	p. 145
	What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us	p. 146
	If You Go Away	p. 147
	For It Felt Like Power	p. 149
	Monomoy	p. 150
	Wild Is the Wind	p. 151
	The Sea, the Forest	p. 153
	From Pale Colors in a Tall Field
	On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing	p. 157
	Pale Colors in a Tall Field	p. 159
	For Nothing Tender About It	p. 160
	Dirt Being Dirt	p. 161
	A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here	p. 162
	Yet No Less Grateful	p. 163
	Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors	p. 164
	Overheard, Under a Dark Enchantment	p. 165
	If It Must Be Winter	p. 166
	Defiance	p. 168
	Star Map with Action Figures
	And If I Fall	p. 173
	Dangerous Only When Disturbed	p. 174
	Wake Up	p. 176
	On Triumph	p. 178
	Unbridled	p. 179
	We Turn Here	p. 180
	To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All.	p. 181
	Reasonable Doubt	p. 182
	Fine	p. 183
	And Swept All Visible Signs Away	p. 185
	Honest in Which Not Gently	p. 186
	Self	p. 187
	Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter	p. 188
	Star Map with Action Figures	p. 190
	My Monster	p. 192
	All the Love You've Got	p. 193
	Notes	p. 197
	Acknowledgments	p. 201
	Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 203

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