Phillips, Carl: Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, hardcover Publication Date: February 1, 2022 Publisher Marketing: A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets. I’m a song, changing. I’m a lightrain falling through a vastdarkness toward a differentdarkness.Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing quest;” Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attending violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther one goes, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started.Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and his chapbook Star Map with Action Figure