The Rest of Love
Subtitle: Poems
By: Carl Phillips.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780374249533
Description: Explores the dichotomy between belief and disbelief, and the human need to believe, in a poetic study of the tension between abandon and control, the physical and the spiritual. 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."