Double shadow /
Comparing any human life to a "restless choir" of impulses, variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh collection of poems, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: "now risk, and now / faintheartedness." In poems that both embo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Comparing any human life to a "restless choir" of impulses, variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh collection of poems, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: "now risk, and now / faintheartedness." In poems that both embody and inhabit this double shadow, risk and faintheartedness prove to have the power equally to rescue us from ourselves and to destroy us. Spare, haunted, and haunting, yet not without hope, Double shadow argues for life as a wilderness through which there's only the questing forward--with no regrets and no looking back.--Publisher. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 58 pages : portrait ; 22 cm |
| Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Poetry, 2011. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780374141578 0374141576 9780374533151 0374533156 |