- Title : Riding Westward: Poems
- Author : Carl Phillips
- Rating : 4.90 (817 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-7-20
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 64 Pages
- Asin : 0374530823
- Language : English
What is the difference, he asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct.. What happens when the w
What is the difference, he asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct.. What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less ableor less willingto distinguish reality from what is desired? In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his ownspeculative, athletic, immediateas he confronts moral crisisI has a edgy, retro screen-printed feel, and makes clever us of multiple layers of flaps to show what the animal mechanics in Bear's garage are up to. No years of hip hop history is left out up to 1998. The author gave great sugestions on basic survival skills. Pun totally intended. As with any anthology, some stories hit me harder than others, and there were a few too many twist endings for my taste. If all the Hewlett-Packard guides are this good, I'm going to check out their printer handbook next. My son loves it.. No double some of them are smart. Teas very informative and just plain fun to look at the pictures.. Various writers cover certain albums which is a gift and a curse. One of the best "field guides" to geology I own. Billy and Emma, two macaws who are best friends, enjoyed a happy life at the zoo until Emma was kidnaped by a robber. I found some of the Health Focus sections to be a bit unsettling. This is a really amazing sticker collection. I used a wide variety of pens - sharpies, color pencils and gel pens.. I encountered an environment that clearly has a massive learning curve. It prepares you well based on others' mistakes, but the repetition is annoying.. John Stillwell's works perhaps treats more of the history of number theory and abstract algebra than ancient mathematics. Be that as it may, this is a delightful book, highly accessible yet energized with wild humAll rights reserved. In recent years, he has sought clearer, more various styles in which to take on the same concerns: never more than in this eighth collection, which proposes "cruelty as a means of understanding love's conditions—not clear,/ but clearer," and wants us to admit, "that's/ how we like it, I'll break your heart, break mine." Short sentences mixed with long, arresting confessions mixed with hard explanations, make parts of the love poems and antilove poems as memorable as ever. Phillips's command of syntax, while changing favored forms, remains, as does his acquaintance with the knots and contradictions of desire: "Trust me," one poem asks, "the way one animal trusts another." (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . From Publishers Weekly The prolific, always articulate Phillips attained late-'90s acclaim for a series of books (among them Pastoral and From the Devotions) whose intricate clauses and mythic topics followed the passions and trials of physical embodiment and erotic (especially same-sex) love
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