• Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us

    Carl Phillips

    Spring 2019

    A water-meadow is not a flood-meadow.

    A working meadow’s not a fallow field.

    Carl Phillips’s new book, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, will be out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2020. Sibling Rivalry Press will publish his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures, this fall.

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    On Stanley Elkin

    Francine Prose

    In the summer of 1995, I was asked to read a passage from Stanley Elkin’s work at a memorial service for him, to be held during the Sewanee Writers Conference, at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. Stanley had died that past May.

    Good Lord the Light

    Christian Wiman

    Good morning misery,
    goodbye belief,
    good Lord the light
    cutting across the lake
    so long gone
    to ice—

    There is an under, always,
    through which things still move, breathe,
    and have their being,
    quick coals and crimsons
    no one need see
    to see.

    Stanzas: Jorie Graham

    Carl Phillips

    I’ve always favored open stanzas that allow their open-endedness to resonate with a meaning that remains unstated, but understood. Yes, the resonances may be misleading, out of context; how, then, to make them meaningfully misleading?

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