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Cover credits: Cover design: Jeanne Lee / Cover art: Evelyn Twitchell |
"Out so much farther than our present pieties, attentive to no social
or sentimental voice, only passion's (so often ruinous, defiant of
upshot), it is not in every case, every poem, that Carl Phillips
triumphs over my timidity. As with Sappho and Pasolini, though, traces
of the winged god are everywhere unmistakable, even when this new poet
has kicked them over: it is a sacred entail his harsh graces make. I
for one am an awed (if lacerated) heir." —Richard Howard |
Price: $12.95 USD
Poetry 1-55597-230-6, 72 pages, Paper
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry
Cortège is concerned with the various directions that desire can
take, and in particular seeks to explore that point at which the flesh
and spirit intersect, addressing an inclusive audience of all human
experience. Is it possible to sustain any kind of substantial lasting
joy in the sexual world? The answer, says Phillips, is yes—but only
after a kind of journey through the same hopes and fears that any epic
hero seems to have. Self-doubt must be confronted, failures must be
overcome—in other words, a general passing through death or its
equivalent—and then, finally, an arrival at a success gained via
lessons learned. Through this lens, Phillips offers a new
understanding of how the struggle between flesh and spirit can be
resolved—and how that understanding can in turn yield the courage to
confront a sexual world that is often intimidating but now tempered
though a newfound wisdom.
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