Following a devastating train wreck, a small group of survivors emerge from the wreckage to discover New York City is the target of an attack and millions of bodies line the streets. Harry Hayward is one of those survivors. He served his country, fought two wars, and in his eighty years on the e
Then the War
β Scribed by Carl Phillips
- Book ID
- 111695920
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 889 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780374603779
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β¦ Synopsis
**A new collection of poems from one of America's most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the War**I'm a song, changing. I'm a light
rain falling through a vast
darkness toward a different
darkness.
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 more difficult it is to remember why or where we started.
Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips's work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, "Among the Trees," and his chapbook,...
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