The Rest of Love (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Phillips
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Music or musicians, Spiritualism, Birds, Animals, Bells
The Rest of Love is not easy poetry, but it is work that repays the effort spent rereading and thinking about it. From the beginning of his poetic career, Carl Phillips has clothed his challenging themes and concepts in richly allusive, lyrical garb. His poems deal with the flesh and the body, but they are not body-poems; rather, their specificity is merged with myth, so that their smallest images seem weighted. His subjects include the gay world, the natural world, and the possibility of a world beyond. Of another book, Cortège (1995), critic Kay Murphy commented, “The...
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