{"product_id":"double-shadow-9780374533151","title":"Double Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stunning new collection of poems from the author of \u003ci\u003eSpeak Low\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComparing any human life to \"a restless choir\" of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: \"now risk, and now \/ faintheartedness.\" In poems that both embody and inhabit this double shadow, risk and faintheartedness prove to have the power equally to rescue us from ourselves and to destroy us. Spare, haunted, and haunting, yet not without hope, \u003ci\u003eDouble Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e argues for life as a wilderness through which there's only the questing forward--with no regrets and no looking back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouble Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2011 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Poetry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e Best Poetry Book of 2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten previous books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eSpeak Low\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eQuiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRiding Westward\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323820478738,"sku":"9780374533151","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f1f9783-1535-4ffd-8e05-ff1fa81a2433.jpg?v=1727661542","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/double-shadow-9780374533151","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}