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Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry

by Carl Phillips

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ISBN13: 9781555974015
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The Award-winning poet Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority, identity, and beauty in these sensual and deeply intelligent essays The "coin of the realm" is, classically, the currency that for any culture most holds value. In art, as in life, the poet Carl Phillips argues, that currency includes beauty, risk, and authority-values of meaning and complexity that all too often go disregarded. Together, these essays become an invaluable statement for the necessary-and necessarily difficult-work of the imagination and the will, even when, as Phillips states in his title essay, "the last thing that most human beings seem capable of trusting naturally-instinctively-is themselves, their own judgment."
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ISBN:
9781555974015
Subtitle:
Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry
Author:
Phillips, Carl
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
LIT014000
Publication Date:
June 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
246
Dimensions:
8.98x6.12x.76 in. .79 lbs.
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