Author: Carl Phillips
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, tether
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2001-04-09
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0374267936
ISBN-13: 9780374267933

Graceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill."Like something broken of wing,lying there.Other than breathing’s rise, catch,release,a silence, as of some especially woundedanimal that, nevertheless, stillis conscious,you can seestraight through the openeye to where instinct falters becausefor once it has comedivided" --from "Chamber Music"In the art of falconry, during training the tether between the gloved fist and the raptor’s anklets is gradually lengthened and eventually unnecessary. In these new lyric poems, Carl Phillips considers the substance of