Riding Westward
Phillips, Carl
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BOOK SUMMARY
What happens when the world as weve known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less ableor less willingto distinguish reality from what is desired? In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistak
BOOK SYNOPSIS
What happens when the world as we’ve known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able—or less willing—to distinguish reality from what is desired? In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own—speculative, athletic, immediate—as he confronts moral crisis. What is the difference, he asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct.
AUTHOR BIO
Carl Phillips is the author of eight previous books of poems, including The Rest of Love, a National Book Award finalist; Rock Harbor; and The Tether, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
BOOK REVIEWS
A master stylist . . . While Phillipss ideas are complex . . .His images ground us. Library Journal The poems in Riding Westward ring like peals of a bellrecognizable, separate and yet merging together, radiating from a single source . . . Again Phillips strikes the theme of radiating realities, this time working inward from the largest darkness of all, which is implied, to the darkness of night, to the smaller darkness of one persons remembered life. The cowboys songas all the poems in Riding Westwardis a comforting lament.Aaron Belz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374530823
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374530822
Dewey Decimal: 811
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 53
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