Carl Phillips Quotes

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What will happen to the memory of his
body, if one of us doesn't hurry now
and write it down fast? Will it be
salt or late light that it melts like?

Carl Phillips

The difference between
God and luck is that luck, when it leaves,
does not go far: the idea is to believe
you could almost touch it.

Carl Phillips

This is the black, shot with blue, of my dark
daddy's knuckles, that do not change, ever. Which is to say they are no more pale
in anger than at rest, or when, as
I imagine them now, they follow
the same two fingers he has always used
to make the rim of every empty blue
glass in the house sing. Always, the same blue-to-black sorrow no black surface can entirely hide.

Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips

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Born: July 23, 1959 (age 66)

Bio: Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Known for:

Silverchest: Poems (2013)
The Rest of Love (2004)
From the devotions (1998)
Riding westward (2006)
Reconnaissance (2015)

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