Riding westward /

What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality from what is desired? In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillips, Carl, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Edition:1st edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Erasure
  • Bright world
  • Torn sash
  • Falling
  • Sea glass
  • The way back
  • Radiance versus ordinary light
  • The small of hay
  • Ocean
  • Brocade
  • Stardust
  • The lower marshes
  • Island
  • Affliction
  • Bow down
  • A summer
  • Swear-to-God
  • After
  • To a legend
  • Close your eyes
  • Shall want for nothing
  • In waves
  • Plumage
  • The messenger
  • Turning west
  • Chivalry
  • Truce
  • Lost, but for a few still-bright details
  • Forecast
  • The cure
  • Native
  • Deepest, where the water looks more green
  • Translation
  • Break of day
  • Armed, luminous
  • Riding westward.