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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2006.
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| 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.