false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172608411m/197983.jpg 197983 1 <div><b>The Award-winning poet Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority, identity, and beauty in these sensual and deeply intelligent essays</b><br><br>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."<br></div> 191512 1 6 2004 Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry total:24|5:10|4:9|3:5|2:0|1:0| 24 101 42 3 4 1 false false Mon Aug 13 20:42:38 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 20:42:54 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 04 14:58:22 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 06 08:25:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 08:23:47 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 08:18:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 22:56:15 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 22:56:15 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Nov 04 11:10:52 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 11:10:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 07 02:47:40 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 02:47:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 30 22:56:19 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 22:56:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 21 18:23:41 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 14:28:54 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Apr 21 23:38:15 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 23:38:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 06 15:15:51 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 15:15:51 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Dec 09 16:41:22 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 16:41:22 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Dec 03 17:48:45 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 17:48:48 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 23 19:22:47 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 19:22:47 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Sep 15 10:49:17 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 10:49:17 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Aug 07 15:37:17 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 15:37:17 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Aug 01 05:07:18 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 05:07:18 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Jul 25 10:25:48 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 10:25:48 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jul 21 15:21:03 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 15:21:03 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jun 10 09:30:12 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 09:30:12 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 18:19:58 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 18:19:58 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=197983