num_pages: 80
description: Striking new poems from a writer whose "lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers." (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review )The light, for as far asI can see, is that of any number of lateafternoons I remember still: how the lightseemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been livinginsider it, waiting - I'd heard all aboutthat one clear note it gives.--from "Late Apollo III"In The Rest of Love , his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to believe: Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off facing up to, even briefly, the hard truths we're nevertheless attracted to? Phillips's signature terse line and syntax enact this constant tension between abandon and control; following his impeccable interior logic, "passionately austere" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post Book World), Phillips plumbs the myths we make and return to in the name of desire-physical, emotional, and spiritual.The Rest of Love is a 2004 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.
language: English
title: The Rest of Love: Poems
titlecomplete: The Rest of Love: Poems
genres: Queer, LGBT, Poetry
ratings_count: 224
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Poetry, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux