#Carl Phillips

[soracities]

Carl Phillips, "Fixed Shadow, Moving Water", Then the War: New and Selected Poems [ID'd]

[sfsolstice]

Carl Phillips, from "Everything All of It," in Then The War

[deputy-buck]

[pendraegon]

[havingapoemwithyou]

fixed shadow, moving water by Carl Phillips

[kiisuuumii]

Carl Phillips, from "If You Go Away," in Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

[dk-thrive]

Anger confusable with sorrow, sorrow canceling all the anger out … It's the past, and it isn't. It's forever. And it isn't.

— Carl Phillips, from "Civilization", Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 1, 2022)

[namedvesta]

— Carl Phillips, from Cortège (𝟤𝟢𝟢𝟤).

[goreprofonde]

In myths, we call it love. Call it desire to soften the god who finds a boy, leads him far from home, claps a cup in his hand and demands Bend to my will, child, you’ll be adored— To turn that god merely animal. To render instinctual his greed, to make of him a man barely culpable, so that we might command a tale that only pleases us: there is no terror in it, glossing over the sliced-out hole in the family photos, the missing child whose pain goes unremarked, silenced by a bolt of lightning, or the shriek of an eagle, its counter- feit wings snatching a boy out of his life, then making that boy serve him, forever.

- Paisley Rekdal, Gokstadt/Ganymede.

[beguines]

Carl Phillips, "Until the End"

[othellho]

— Carl Phillips, Luck

[karlkapri]

Forest Sounds: A Conversation with Carl Phillips

[the-final-sentence]

It's the brokenness itself, the incompleteness of who we were, I think, that made the whole thing work.

Carl Phillips, from "Last Call"

[malaisequotes]

“—So here we are again, one-handedly fingering the puckered edges of the exit wounds memory leaves behind.”

Givingly by Carl Phillips

[whisperthatruns]

I have a story, the falcon says, seems to, the wings lifting, the feathers rippling with a story's parts---I have a story; I can't wait to tell you.

Carl Phillips, from “Wake Up,” Star Map with Action Figures (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019)

[llovelymoonn]

favourite november poems

marilyn chin little girl études

muriel rukeyser the speed of darkness: “poem (i lived in the first century of world wars)”

sanna wani lately i am trying

tory dent collected poems: “the moon and the yew tree”

maya mior re: your listing

marvin bell nightworks: poems 1962-2000: “obsessive”

lauren k. alleyene how could i have known i would need to remember your laughter

charles bernstein with strings: “a test of poetry”

carl phillips this far in

laura wetherington (& hannah ensor) feel piece 4

dean young dear friend

robyn schiff a woman of property: “gate”

margaret de laughter a pantoun

rick barot the flea

elsa gidlow oversoul

carl phillips stop shaking

warsan shire the unbearable weight of staying

manuel arturo abreu klangfarbenmelodie

marianne boruch keats is coughing

evan knoll blood makes the blade holy

risk (@mechanicrisk) my son, the two headed calf

francine sterle nude in winter: “self-portrait as an allegory of painting”

luci tapahonso a radiant curve: “elegy for my younger sister”

matthew sweeney alone

david harsent from “a dream book”

sanna wani tomorrow is a place

rachel blau duplessis: from eurydics: snake

hannah brooks-motl family dollar

matthew olzmann letter beginning with two lines from czesław miłosz

janice lobo sapigao silhouette

kofi