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A form of prayer.

Publication: Lambda Book Report
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1119 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A form of prayer.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry

By Carl Phillips

Graywolf Press

ISBN 1-55597-401-5

PB, $15.00, 246 pp.

Carl Phillips is in the enviable position of being one of the most respected and admired poets in the United States today, sans qualifier. Author of seven books of poetry and winner of numerous awards, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lammy and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, he has, in a sense, crossed over from being a "black" or "biracial" or "gay" poet to just being a poet.

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It is difficult, then, not to come to Coin of the Realm, Phillips' first work of nonfiction and criticism, with a twofold intent: first to learn more about poetry in general, and second to search for clues to the writer's intention in his own work. "Who are you?" we ask writers of books like this,...

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