{"product_id":"speak-low-paperback","title":"Speak Low - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeak Low \u003c\/i\u003eis the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft. Over the course of nine critically acclaimed collections, he has generated a sustained meditation on the restless and ever-shifting myth of human identity. Desire and loss, mastery and subjugation, belief and doubt, sex, animal instinct, human reason: these are among the lenses through which Phillips examines what it means to be that most bewildering, irresolvable conundrum, a human being in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese new poems are of a piece with Phillips's previous work in their characteristic clarity and originality of thought, in their unsparing approach to morality and psychology, and in both the strength and startling flexibility of their line. \u003ci\u003eSpeak Low \u003c\/i\u003eis the record of a powerful vision that, in its illumination of the human condition, has established itself as a necessary step toward our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeak Low\u003c\/i\u003e is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of nine previous books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eQuiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRiding Westward\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762297274656,"sku":"9780374532161","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/222093e6a505c849991fb0f9fea80d0c.webp?v=1780218944","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/speak-low-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}