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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
A new collection of poems from one of America's most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips''s Then the War
I'm a song, changing. I'm a light
rain falling through a vast
darkness toward a different
darkness.
Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an ongoing quest; Then the War 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.
Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips's work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his
