{"product_id":"book-hl3r","title":"Then the War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In much of the best contemporary poetry, beauty of thought is at least as important as beauty of language. Carl Phillips, here reading his own Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, has an ample supply of both, but it is the thinking behind each poem that makes it possible for the language to have power.\" - \u003ci\u003eAudioFile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's \u003ci\u003eThen the War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eI’m a song, changing. I’m a light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003erain falling through a vast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003edarkness toward a different\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003edarkness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing quest”; \u003ci\u003eThen the War\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThen the War\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eStar Map with Action \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFigures\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003ci\u003eThen \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe War \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49354808885552,"sku":"BDhl3r","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/420383-hl3r-Square.jpg?v=1734372014","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hl3r","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}