Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips
Only for you today! Discover your favourite publication here by downloading and obtaining the soft data of guide Elegy For A Broken Machine: Poems, By Patrick Phillips This is not your time to traditionally likely to the e-book stores to buy an e-book. Below, ranges of book Elegy For A Broken Machine: Poems, By Patrick Phillips and collections are available to download and install. Among them is this Elegy For A Broken Machine: Poems, By Patrick Phillips as your favored publication. Getting this e-book Elegy For A Broken Machine: Poems, By Patrick Phillips by on-line in this website can be understood now by going to the web link page to download and install. It will be very easy. Why should be here?
Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips
Best PDF Ebook Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips
The poet Patrick Phillips brings us a stunning third collection that is at its core a son’s lament for his father. This book of elegies takes us from the luminous world of childhood to the fluorescent glare of operating rooms and recovery wards, and into the twilight lives of those who must go on. In one poem Phillips watches his sons play “Mercy” just as he did with his brother: hands laced, the stronger pushing the other back until he grunts for mercy, “a game we played // so many times / I finally taught my sons, // not knowing what it was, / until too late, I’d done.” Phillips documents the unsung joys of midlife, the betrayals of the human body, and his realization that as the crowd of ghosts grows, we take our places, next in line. The result is a twenty-first-century memento mori, fashioned not just from loss but also from praise, and a fierce love for the world in all its ruined splendor.
Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips- Amazon Sales Rank: #268204 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .70" w x 6.50" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 80 pages
Review Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry"An acute awareness of mortality gives Elegy for a Broken Machine a paradoxical, striking vitality. Whether writing about his father's drawn-out illness, an old guitar, his small son's school project, married and unmarried love, or the long-forgone pleasures of smoking, Patrick Phillips reminds us that love calls us to the things of this world in all its beauty, sorrow, comedy, and vanishing." --2015 National Book Awards, Judges' Citation "Phillips (Boy) examines masculinity and loss with a surgeon's precision in his elegiac third book. The figures of father and son, brother and husband, all play out here--often simultaneously--and Phillips's careful language consciously breaks down these distinctions, fusing the roles men play throughout their lives, and connecting past to present. And Phillips ponders just what makes a human body different from any other relinquished object, imagining his mattress decaying at the dump 'as it sloughs its guts into the dirt.' --Publishers Weekly
About the Author PATRICK PHILLIPS is the author of two poetry collections, Boy and Chattahoochee, which won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His honors include both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Discovery / The Nation Prize from the 92nd Street Y, and the Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Drew University.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Elegy for a Broken MachineMy father was tryingto fix somethingand I sat there just watching,like I used to,whenever somethingwent wrong.I kept asking where he’d been,until he put down a wrenchand said Listen:dying’s just somethingthat happens sometimes.Who knowswhere that kind of dream comes from?Why some thingsvanish, and somejust keep going forever?Like that look on his facewhen he’d stare off at somethingI could never make outin the murky garage,his ear pressedto whatever it wasthat had died—his eyes listening for somethingso deep inside it, I thoughteven the silence,if you listened,meant something.***** Old LoveYou, lovely beyond all lovely, whoI’ve loved since Ifirst looked intoyour blue beyond blue eyes,are no longeranywhere on earththe girl these wordscall out to,though never, since,have I not beena darkening woodshe walks through. ***** The GuitarIt came with those scratchesfrom all their belt buckles,palm-dark with their sweatlike the stock of a gun:an arc of pickmarks cutclear through the lacquerwhere all the players before meonce strummed—oncethumbed these same latcheswhere it sleeps in green velvet.Once sang, as I sing, the old songs.There’s no end, there’s no endto this world, everlasting.We crumble to dust in its arms.
Where to Download Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips
Most helpful customer reviews
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Mature, genuine, and moving. By Grant Barber Some poetry collections you give a single read. Some, much fewer you realize if you read a lot of poetry, are masterworks of voice, tone, subject, verbal brilliance. Phillips' most recent warrants holding onto, for second readings and beyond. He brings a focused consideration for matters closest to his heart; his previous books have touched on much of the same emotional geography. Phillips brings some formal poetics to bear, but not in a contrived, forced manner; it always adds to the content rather than say to the reader, "see what I can do!" Over the years of reading poetry (several decades now) I've grown weary of the first person, 'dramatic' poems that seem to ask for credit for unearned emotions. You know usually how to spot them: the concluding line of each poem will routinely go for the gut shot, or brilliant epiphany. Sorry...you can only realize you must change your life once or twice. Phillips though, he gives us genuine stuff of life in words only possible in true poetry. I may even memorize one or two of them.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Elegy By Kailyn Dekker I recently attended a poetry reading of Patrick Phillips' and fell in love with his style of writing. His poems say/show more than what is actually written and as a young author I admire this tremendously. Elegy for a Broken Machine deals with subject matters surrounding his personal life but are events shared within the human experience making each piece relatable in some way.Amazing Poet on the Rise, I highly recommend this collection.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. another delightful book by Patrick Phillips By RJK The sublimely passionate poetry written by Patrick was conceived because he had a father,who was a father, unapologeticly, bombastic, boisttrss and profane. In other words a really good man who begat another really good man. It just gets better and better.
See all 12 customer reviews... Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick PhillipsElegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips PDF
Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips iBooks
Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips ePub
Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips rtf
Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips AZW
Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, by Patrick Phillips Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar