About Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Cortège, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; From the Devotions, a finalist for the National Book Award; and, most recently, Speak Low (FSG, March 2009)

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I mean after the lashing.
After the welts that the lash gave rise to have
healed so beautifully, we forget where they were. Here,
we say, pointing vaguely, as toward a bird that

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