6/23/2023 0 Comments Then the War by Carl Phillips![]() ![]() ![]() The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attending 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 one goes, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. 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. I’m a light rain falling through a vast darkness toward a different darkness. ![]() A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the WarI’m a song, changing. ![]()
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