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Carl Phillips

Author profile

born

The United States

gender

male

genre

Poetry

influences

Thucydides, Cicero, Tacitus, George Herbert, John Donne

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Carl Phillips is the highly acclaimed author of 10 collections of poetry.

He was born in 1959 to an Air Force family, who moved regularly throughout his childhood, until finally settling in his high-school years at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Boston University and taught high-school Latin for eight years.

His first book, In the Blood, won the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize and was heralded as the work of an outstanding newcomer in the field of contemporary poetry. His other books are Cortège (1995), a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry; From the Devotions (1998), a finalist for the National...more Carl Phillips is the highly acclaimed author of 10 collections of poetry.

He was born in 1959 to an Air Force family, who moved regularly throughout his childhood, until finally settling in his high-school years at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Boston University and taught high-school Latin for eight years.

His first book, In the Blood, won the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize and was heralded as the work of an outstanding newcomer in the field of contemporary poetry. His other books are Cortège (1995), a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry; From the Devotions (1998), a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry; Pastoral (2000), winner of the Lambda Literary Award; The Tether, (2001), winner of the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Rock Harbor (2002); The Rest of Love: Poems, a 2004 National Book Award finalist, for which Phillips also won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry; Riding Westward (2006); Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006 (2007); and Speak Low (2009), a 2009 National Book Award finalist. Two additional titles were published in the 2003-04 academic year: a translation of Sophocles' Philoctetes came out in September 2003, and a book of essays, Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry, was published in May 2004. Phillips is the recipient of, among others, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Foundation Fellowship from the Library of Congress, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review, as well as in anthologies, including eight times in the Best American Poetry series, The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997, and The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poets. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program.(less)

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Books by Carl Phillips

Average rating: 4.08 · 671 ratings · 57 reviews · 21 distinct works

	The Rest of Love 4.11 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Speak Low 4.00 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006 4.43 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Tether 3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Riding Westward 4.15 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	From the Devotions 4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Pastoral 4.10 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Cortège 4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry 4.23 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Double Shadow: Poems 3.51 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating: