Carl Phillips

"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...

An invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture....

This program is read by the author. A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phillips' new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both...