Reconnaissance : poems /

Reconnaissance : poems /

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"A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most respected poets -- There's a trembling inside the both of us, there's a trembling, inside us both. The territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely "what the light falls through,"...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillips, Carl, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American poetry > African American authors.
Poésie américaine > Auteurs noirs américains.
POETRY > American > African American.
poetry.
Poetry.
Poésie.
Table of Contents:
  • Reconnaissance
  • The Darker Powers
  • For Night To Fall
  • Moralia
  • The Greatest Colors For The Emptiest Parts Of The World
  • Steeple
  • Since You Ask
  • Capella
  • Chromatic Black
  • Permission To Speak
  • Discipline
  • For Long To Hold
  • Stamina
  • The Length Of The Field
  • The Buried Life
  • After Learning That The Spell Is Irreversible
  • From A Land Called Near-Is-Far
  • Correction
  • Spirit Lake
  • In Which To Wonder Flew A Kind Of Reckoning
  • Lowish Hum, Cool Fuss
  • Last Night
  • Foliage
  • The Strong By Their Stillness
  • Thunder
  • Faintly, With Falling Stars
  • Delicately, Slow, The World Comes Back
  • Enough, Tom Fool, Now Sleep
  • Meanwhile, And Anyway
  • Harness
  • Shield
  • At Bay
  • Spring
  • By Force
  • Acknowledgments.