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Availability:In StockContributor:Carl PhillipsPublish date:2010-03-16Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374532161ISBN-10:374532168UPC:9780374532161Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+Book Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCPH4PDSQ0

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 a powerful vision that, in its illumination of the human condition, has established itself as a necessary step toward our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first century.

Speak Low is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374532161ISBN-10:374532168UPC:9780374532161Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+Book Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCPH4PDSQ0

Carl 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.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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