{"product_id":"the-rest-of-love-9780374529628","title":"The Rest of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStriking new poems from a writer whose \"lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers.\" (Carol Moldaw, \u003ci\u003eThe Antioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe light, for as far as\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI can see, is that of any number of late \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eafternoons I remember still: how the light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eseemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003einsider it, waiting - I'd heard all about \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat one clear note it gives. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Late Apollo III\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to believe: Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off facing up to, even briefly, the hard truths we're nevertheless attracted to? Phillips's signature terse line and syntax enact this constant tension between abandon and control; following his impeccable interior logic, \"passionately austere\" (Rita Dove, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eBook World), Phillips plumbs the myths we make and return to in the name of desire-physical, emotional, and spiritual. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Love \u003c\/i\u003eis a 2004 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.\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 six previous books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eRock Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tether\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, he teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410793763090,"sku":"9780374529628","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a6a3031e-3ba0-4515-a550-6ab424d94df3.jpg?v=1729307268","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rest-of-love-9780374529628","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}