Book

Phillips, Carl, 1959- author.

Wild is the wind / Carl Phillips.

First edition.

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018.

55 pages ; 22 cm

"Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named--love at once restless, reckless, and yet desired for its potential to bring stability. In the process, he pitches estrangement against communion, examines the past as history versus the past as memory, and reflects on the past's capacity both to teach and to mislead us--also to make us hesitate in the face of love, given the loss and damage that are, often enough, love's fallout"--Amazon.com.

Love poetry.

American poetry.

Poetry.

Love poetry.

Poems. Selections

"Poems"--Jacket.

Courtship -- Swimming -- Brothers in arms -- Meditation: on being a mystery to oneself -- Musculature -- Givingly -- The distance and the spoils -- Not the waves as they make their way forward -- Gold leaf -- Several birds in hand but the rest go free -- Stray -- Revolver -- The dark no softer than it was before -- From a bonfire -- And love you too -- What I see is the light falling all around us -- Black and copper in a crush of flowers -- If you go away -- What the lost are for -- Rockabye -- His master's voice -- That it might save, or drown them -- Gently, though, gentle -- The wedding -- More tenderly over some of us than others -- The way one animal trusts another -- A stillness between the hunting and the chase -- Before the leaves turn back -- For it felt like power -- Craft and vision -- Crossing -- Monomoy -- If you will, I will -- Wild is the wind -- The sea, the forest.

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