for "In the Blood" "An astonishing debut by an African-American poet with mandarin grace and surpassing elegance of form married to unflinchingly bold and discerning content. Phillips refuses to write what might be expected of him on any subject, whether it's gender, race, faith, or morality. His reticence, his refusal of polemic, remind me sometimes of the young James Merrill, even of Auden."--Marilyn Hacker Priase for "Cortege" """Carl Phillips is a poet of eros, but…
Author: Carl Phillips · Original publisher: Graywolf Press (1995)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/cortege00phil (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B1: cortege00phil; no hosting rights).
