Riding Westward: Poems

by Carl Phillips

Book Overview

In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral crisis.

The singer turning this and that way, as if watching the song itself
--the words to the song--leave him, as he
lets each go, the wind carrying most of it,
some of the words, falling, settling into
instead that larger darkness, where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374530823
• ISBN13: 9780374530822
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.3" x 8.9"