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Speak Low
Contributor(s): Phillips, Carl (Author)
ISBN: 0374532168     ISBN-13: 9780374532161
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
OUR PRICE:   $13.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - African American
- Poetry | Lgbt
Dewey: 811.54
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.25 lbs) 80 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:

Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft. Over the course of nine critically acclaimed collections, he has generated a sustained meditation on the restless and ever-shifting myth of human identity. Desire and loss, mastery and subjugation, belief and doubt, sex, animal instinct, human reason: these are among the lenses through which Phillips examines what it means to be that most bewildering, irresolvable conundrum, a human being in the world.

These new poems are of a piece with Phillips's previous work in their characteristic clarity and originality of thought, in their unsparing approach to morality and psychology, and in both the strength and startling flexibility of their line. Speak Low is the record of a powerful vision that, in its illumination of the human condition, has established itself as a necessary step toward our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first century.

Speak Low is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.


Contributor Bio(s): Phillips, Carl: - Carl Phillips is the author of several books of poetry, including Silverchest, a finalist for the International Griffin Prize, and Double Shadow, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is also the author of The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.