Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Silverchest: Poems

Carl Phillips

4.13/5 (262 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

A bracingly beautiful new collection from the author of Double Shadow

“After the afterlife, there’s an afterlife.”

In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves, intentional and not, can lead not only to a kind of wisdom but also to renewal, maybe even joy, if we’re willing to commit fully to a life in which “I love you / means what exactly?” In poems shot through with his signature mix of eros, restless energy, and moral scrutiny, Phillips argues for the particular courage it takes to look at the self squarely—not with judgment but with understanding—and extend that self more honestly toward others: It’s a risk, there’s a lot to lose, but if it’s true that “we’ll drown anyway—why not in color?”

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0374261210

ISBN13:: 9780374261214

kindle Asin:: B00KK4DOJK

Silverchest: Poems

Carl Phillips

4.13/5 (262 ratings)

Read Download

A bracingly beautiful new collection from the author of Double Shadow

“After the afterlife, there’s an afterlife.”

In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves, intentional and not, can lead not only to a kind of wisdom but also to renewal, maybe even joy, if we’re willing to commit fully to a life in which “I love you / means what exactly?” In poems shot through with his signature mix of eros, restless energy, and moral scrutiny, Phillips argues for the particular courage it takes to look at the self squarely—not with judgment but with understanding—and extend that self more honestly toward others: It’s a risk, there’s a lot to lose, but if it’s true that “we’ll drown anyway—why not in color?”

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0374261210

ISBN13:: 9780374261214

kindle Asin:: B00KK4DOJK

More Books

Archeophonics (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Peter Gizzi

Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

The Seven Ages

Louise Glück

Meadowlands

Louise Glück

Averno

Louise Glück

A Village Life

Louise Glück

Couplets

Maggie Millner

Vita Nova

Louise Glück

Faithful and Virtuous Night

Louise Glück