Carl Phillips Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology
Ocean VuongCarl PhillipsAn oldie but goodie rears its affable head in this cool new anthology @walshmwriter@autumnhousepress Thx for including me!
Paperback, 2022
$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sacraments of Desire: Poems
Linda GreggCarl Phillips@PBW_Poet Linda Gregg’s poems were where I first saw this technique, and I’ve used it in almost all my poems from first book to now.
Paperback, 1992
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Yiyun LiCarl PhillipsToday’s #TolstoyTogether reading: a great example of how Tolstoy punctuates the abstract & theoretical with palpable moments of soldierly tenderness & humor, reminding us that things like war & peace contain human beings. The best poems do this too. @APublicSpace https://t.co/2f2E9kuVcA
Paperback, 2025
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
Carl PhillipsCarl PhillipsWell if I can’t make it as a poet, I just might try taking this prose stuff more seriously! So excited to see the excerpt from my book My Trade is Mystery included here! @yalepress @yalereview https://t.co/BawH9lKPCS
Paperback, 2023
$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Persuasion
Jane AustenCarl Phillips40 years later, I’m loving this all over again, but differently - what a difference an adulthood makes! But I’ll always be grateful for that first read when adulthood was new…
Paperback, 2003
$7.00Member price:$3.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Simple Passion
Annie ErnauxCarl Phillips“Once I start typing out the text, once it appears before me in public characters, I shall be through with innocence.” Annie Ernaux getting at the difference between the handwritten first drafts & the typed finished version. (Fr Simple Passion) https://t.co/M2ewVGzIwl
Paperback, 2003
$12.95Member price:$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lord and the General Din of the World: Poems
Jane MeadCarl PhillipsPlease join us in remembering the life and poems of Jane Mead — tonight! https://t.co/T56Gz82GfN
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Republic of Poetry
Martin EspadaCarl PhillipsHuge congrats to Martín Espada — terrific poet & champion for poetry & the first poet I ever showed a poem to when he visited the high school I was teaching at. “Have you thought of doing something more with your poems?” he asked. “Like what?” I asked back… https://t.co/im42Yp3ITA
Paperback, 2008
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Best Barbarian: Poems
Roger ReevesCarl PhillipsIn one hour! Free! The incredible Roger Reeves will read his poems! Join us… https://t.co/wJh8WMx5xM
Paperback, 2023
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Double Shadow
Carl PhillipsCarl PhillipsSo wild to see this poem that I published and then dismantled! Parts became a poem called Heaven and Earth in my book Double Shadow. Other parts went elsewhere. Talk about revision! I think I found this one too over wrought? https://twitter.com/aliner/status/1480416221690580995
Paperback, 2012
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book