{"product_id":"pastoral-poems","title":"Pastoral: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePastoral: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCarl Phillips\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781555972981\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGraywolf Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Phillips is the author of nine previous books of poems, including \"Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006\";\" Riding Westward\"; and \"The Rest of Love,\" a National Book Award finalist. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. Phillips here creates a shadowy inner landscape, one where the field is the heart, and the heart itself has a beautifully yet often treacherously flawed darkness that each of us--believing in the possibility of light--seeks to penetrate. \u003cbr\u003eExamining how to fill and fulfill the life granted us--how to realize the self entirely, and in time--these rhythmically sequenced meditations circle the predicaments of our longing against the formal backdrop of pastoral tradition. How do we balance control and abandonment when making poetry? Or when making a life with another person? How do we reconcile fleshly desire and spiritual intention? Tightly coherent and emotionally nuanced, \"Pastoral\" enlarges--and also defines--Phillips's already impressive poetic landscape.\u003cbr\u003e \"Desire--erotic and spiritual--courses passionately through this collection: the strict shape desire inflicts on the chaos desire lets loose. But Phillips addresses not only passion, but art, history, nature: all, in his hands, are forms of wanting. His rhythms are beautifully and powerfully various--sinewy, majestic, casual, adamant--as he modulates from honesty to honesty like no one else; [this book] both trusts and beautifully second-guesses appearances with an accuracy that moves and amazes.\"--Jorie Graham \u003cbr\u003e\"In this brilliant fourth collection, foreboding fields and roaming creatures [both] echo the sorrow, alienation, and eros of bodily existence.\"--\"Publishers Weekly\" (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Pastoral: Poems | Carl Phillips | Paperback | 9781555972981 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1531444","offer_id":50574397669634,"sku":"1531444","price":31.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71c4NhwKC4L.jpg?v=1790860254","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/pastoral-poems","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}