“Striking Prayer’s Attitude:” A Dalliance with the Poetry of Carl Phillips

by Nicholas DiBenedetto

“Sometimes the thought that I’m doomed / to fail – that the body is – keeps me almost steady,” – Carl Phillips Thus writes Carl Phillips in “Stray,” one of two recent pieces by the poet that have appeared in the March 2016 issue of Poetry. Indeed, the flux between states of balance and imbalance… More “Striking Prayer’s Attitude:” A Dalliance with the Poetry of Carl Phillips by Nicholas DiBenedetto