Double Shadow

by Carl Phillips

Book Overview

A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak Low

Comparing any human life to "a restless choir" of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: "now risk, and now / faintheartedness." In poems that both embody and inhabit this double shadow, risk and faintheartedness prove to have the power equally to rescue us...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374533156
• ISBN13: 9780374533151
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"