{"product_id":"pastoral-carl-phillips-9781555972981","title":"Pastoral: Poems","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555972985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555972981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.31d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lambda Literary Awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/06\/1999 pg. 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/1999 pg. 1914\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058352451839,"sku":"9781555972981","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8784a85c-6fea-4ba8-b2fa-d4f17a6cfb73.jpg?v=1685052079","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pastoral-carl-phillips-9781555972981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}