Carl Phillips
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 115
Language
English
Formats
Description
What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writing. In six insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditates on the craft of poetry, its capacity for making a space for possibility and inquiry. What does it mean to give shapelessness a form? How can a poem explore both the natural world and the inner world? Phillips demonstrates the restless qualities of the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the writing life, an "apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered." Drawing on forty years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers, he weaves his experiences as a poet with the necessary survival skills, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community. In the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird...
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 112
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Duy Doan's striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collection's unassuming title, in poems that explore--now with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reserve--the ambiguities and tensions that mark our effort to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves. These are poems that draw from Doan's experience as a Vietnamese-American while at the same time making a case for--and masterfully playing with--the fluidity of identity, history,...
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 113
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
13) Blue yodel
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 109
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
14) Westerly
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 107
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
15) Simulacra
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 111
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation,...