{"product_id":"riding-westward-poems-paperback","title":"Riding Westward: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRiding Westward\u003c\/i\u003e, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral crisis. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe singer turning this and that way, as if watching the song itself\u003cbr\u003e--the words to the song--leave him, as he\u003cbr\u003elets each go, the wind carrying most of it, \u003cbr\u003esome of the words, falling, settling into\u003cbr\u003einstead that larger darkness, where the smaller \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edarknesses that our lives were lie softly down.\u003cbr\u003e--from Riding Westward \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality from what is desired? What is the difference, Phillips asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of eight previous books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist; \u003ci\u003eRock Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Tether\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8.9 x 6.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453794074802,"sku":"9780374530822","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b92a5847e0edeb93c51eed83833ca014.webp?v=1778837879","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/riding-westward-poems-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}