β Becky Monson
π Fiction
π
2015
π English
β 138 KB
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β¦ LIBER β¦
Speak low: poems
β Scribed by Carl Phillips
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 26 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft. Over the course of nine critically acclaimed collections, he has generated a sustained meditation on the restless and ever-shifting myth of human identity. Desire and loss, mastery and subjugation, belief and doubt, sex, animal instinct, human reason: these are among the lenses through which Phillips examines what it means to be that most bewildering, irresolvable conundrum, a human being in the world.
These new poems are of a piece with Phillips's previous work in their characteristic clarity and originality of thought, in their unsparing approach to morality and psychology, and in both the strength and startling flexibility of their line. Speak Low is the record of...
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