Coin Of The Realm by Carl Phillips
Award-winning poet Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority, identity and beauty in these sensual and deeply intelligent critical essays. He attends to the life and art of poetry by examining traditions across literary and cultural histories, from the restiveness of the Psalms, the pleas and persuasions of George Herbert, and the identity politics of the Black Arts Movement, to the Classically inflected restraint and release of his own poetry. Together, their elegantly wrought prose acclaim Carl Phillips as one of our most persuasive contemporary critics.
"Whether he is writing about George Herbert, Sylvia Plath or Langston Hughes, whether he is making a case for beauty, or thinking the nature of race and gender, myth and fable, in American poetry, Carl Phillips's prose is intriguing, learned and unconventional, filled with insights and surprises, brightened by luminosities" - Edward Hirsch; "Readers of Carl Phillips's poetry will have some preparation for the pleasures and insights of this volume, particularly its subtlety, originality and historical range. Yet Coin Of The Realm will also be admired as a prose work that stands alone... [It] will be of interest to anyone who cares about literature." - Susan Stewart"
Carl Phillips is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Rock Harbor and The Tether which won the Kingsley Tufts Award; he is the translator of Sophocles's Philoctetes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781555974015 |
| ISBN 10 | 1555974015 |
| Title | Coin Of The Realm |
| Author | Carl Phillips |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2004-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Commended for Society of Midland Authors Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2005 |
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