I’ve bloomed twice in this life already. Once, as a fever, in its blooming. The second time— It was like when a raven unfolds its blackery to its fullest span and, having risen, glides now at [...]
Carl Phillips was born in 1959. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Speak Low (2009), Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986–2006 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007) and [...]