“Book Descriptions: The light, for as far as I can see, is that of any number of late
afternoons I remember how the light seemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living insider it, waiting - I'd heard all about
that one clear note it gives. --from "Late Apollo III"
In The Rest of Love , his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off facing up to, even briefly, the hard truths we're nevertheless attracted to? Phillips's signature terse line and syntax enact this constant tension between abandon and control; following his impeccable interior logic, "passionately austere" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post Book World), Phillips plumbs the myths we make and return to in the name of desire--physical, emotional, and spiritual.” DRIVE
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