Rock Harbor

A masterful new collection by one of our most important contemporary lyric poets

Wind as a face gone red with blowing,

oceans whose end is broken stitchery--

swim of sea-dragon, dolphin,

shimmer-and-coil, invitation. . . . You Know

the kind of map I mean. Countries as

distant as they are believable . . .

--from "Halo"

Carl Phillips lyric explorations of longing and devotion, castigation and mercy, are unrivaled in contemporary poetry.

Here, in his sixth book, Phillips visits those spaces, b...