{"product_id":"then-the-war-and-selected-poems-2007-2020","title":"Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m a song, changing. I’m a light\u003cbr\u003erain falling through a vast\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edarkness toward a different\u003cbr\u003edarkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing quest”; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the War includes a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67577556271411,"sku":"9780374607678","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/1108\/1267\/files\/9780374607678.jpg?v=1790455791","url":"https:\/\/slantoflightbooks.com\/products\/then-the-war-and-selected-poems-2007-2020","provider":"Slant of Light Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}