The Rest of Love

Description

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.

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."

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Other Editions

• The Rest of Love: PoemsHardcoverFarrar, Straus and Giroux2004-01-01
• The Rest of LoveFarrar, Straus and Giroux2004-12-23
• Rest of LoveTurtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media2005-01-01
• Rest of LoveFarrar, Straus & Giroux2014-01-01
• The rest of loveFarrar, Straus and Giroux