[Wgcp-whc] Carl Phillip’s Reconnaissance copies now available at WHC

Fri Oct 9 10:24:46 EDT 2015

Hello Friends,

Although we will be meeting next Friday for our continued discussion of Dan Beachy-Quick’s gentlessness (this time with the author himself) I did want to remind everyone that we will also meet on 10/30. That discussion will focus on Carl Phillip’s Reconnaissance, which was just published last month.  Then. the poet will join us for a discussion of that book and his work in general on 11/6.

15 copies of Reconnaissance are now available in room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center.  As ever, these copies are free for members, though since they go so quickly we just ask that you only take a copy if you will be able to make at least one of the sessions devoted to the book.

A useful interview with Phillips can be found here:
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I’ll paste at the bottom his official bio:

Also, our very own Liz Gray will be reading this Thursday,  October 15th at 7 PM at  The Poetry Institute <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thepoetryinstitute.com_&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=L_nXPIPnKQ-MK-U1PJyfAEjTTFOzbbj4ZqC1akBwbyU&e= >, The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven. She’ll be reading from her new collection of poems, Series | India.  https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.amazon.com_Series-2DIndia-2DStahlecker-2DSelections-2DElizabeth_dp_1935536559&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=Lx7rDYRUf6jj-ADtpnM5JvCbTx7V8Ny1pUzRBpkqVZU&e= 

Ever and Onward,

Richard Deming, Group Coordinator 

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Born on July 23, 1959 in Everett, Washington, Carl Phillips is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Reconnaisance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) and Riding Westward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). His collection The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

His other books include Rock Harbor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002); The Tether (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Pastoral (Graywolf Press, 2000), winner of the Lambda Literary Award; From the Devotions (Graywolf Press, 1998), finalist for the National Book Award; Cortége (Graywolf Press, 1995), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and In the Blood (Northeastern University Press, 1992), winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize.

His work has been anthologized in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Vintage Books, 2003), edited by J. D. McClatchy <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_j-2Dd-2Dmcclatchy&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=PQ4F860voIuwNfYCezm5tT5Agpqeh87ohzCXpvT3yxc&e= >; Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (St. Martin’s Press, 2002), edited by Helen Vendler; Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_book_gay-2Dand-2Dlesbian-2Dpoetry-2Dour-2Dtime&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=CPpK3PfPnppkv6wL83YRuOSFktzce2l7ns0PoV80QuQ&e= > (St. Martin’s Press, 1988); Contemporary American Poetry <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_book_contemporary-2Damerican-2Dpoetry&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=E6eUxkxXcacsTZpirrANpqIgF1DekpMPbB0YfCC4CM8&e= > (Houghton Mifflin, 2001); and The Vintage Book of African American Poetry <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_text_great-2Danthology-2Dvintage-2Dbook-2Dafrican-2Damerican-2Dpoetry&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=GvCEW1nJ9DxkD4W076a4sM84yWnXZdeS398quxAYZ-E&e= > (Vintage Books, 2000). His poems have also been chosen eight times for the annual Best American Poetry series. Phillips is also the author of a book of prose, Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2004), and the translator of Sophocles’s Philoctetes (Oxford University Press, 2003).

His honors include the 2006 Academy of American Poets Fellowship <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_academy-2Damerican-2Dpoets_prizes_academy-2Damerican-2Dpoets-2Dfellowship&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=nGznIXtJmAvLdPvKG5DjQXzED9ahWqZh0AUkWNL5a5U&e= >, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress.

Ancient Greek and Roman writers, especially Thucydides, Cicero, and Tacitus, were an early influence for Phillips. He studied their work extensively in college, and through them learned “how forceful syntax can be in conveying nuance” as well as the use of “compression when conveying psychological and emotional crisis.” Later, while studying with Geoffrey Hill <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_sir-2Dgeoffrey-2Dhill&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=G_-rFePkcN7B6u86MEpy-xXQp6aN-Na5aHgu4cM2SR4&e= >, he discovered English Metaphysical poets such as George Herbert <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_george-2Dherbert&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=Ms3vCuysPfXmne3NMOAEhmNNXHJzdcLyC0KQhVmgMIg&e= > and John Donne <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_john-2Ddonne&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=7uvtRpsLN54XKPI73jo_Moz-XQ1G5iR5nxraR6dNl58&e= >.

According to the Judges’ Citation for the 1998 National Book Awards, “Carl Phillips’s passionate and lyrical poems read like prayers, with a prayer’s hesitations, its desire to be utterly accurate, its occasional flowing outbursts.”

Phillips served as a Chancellor <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_academy-2Damerican-2Dpoets_chancellors&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=ieEDtXs1hJHuhdapdjTpsOLjPEe4W-eoj5Ohj7_W1No&e= > of the Academy of American Poets from 2006 to 2012. He is Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program. 

Selected Bibliography

Reconnaisance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)
Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)
Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
Riding Westward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
Rock Harbor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)
The Tether (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
Pastoral (Graywolf Press, 2000)
>From the Devotions (Graywolf Press, 1998)
Cortége (Graywolf Press, 1995)
In the Blood (Northeastern University Press, 1992)

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