Wild Is the Wind
ジャズ・スタンダードの題名を借り、愛がもたらす不安定さ、記憶と歴史のずれ、喪失の後でなお信じることの危うさを見つめる詩集。哲学的な省察と叙情が重なり、親密さと孤独のあいだを揺れる声が、精密な構文で展開する。
作品情報
愛に保証がないからこそ、詩は絶望に抗う身振りになる。
『Wild Is the Wind』は、愛を安定ではなく危険を伴う賭けとして見つめる詩集である。海図や航海、空と大地のイメージを用いながら、過去が人を導く場合と迷わせる場合を同時に描く。日本語単行本は確認できず、英語版の紙書籍・電子版で読む作品となる。
レビュー要約
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批評では、思索の深さと音楽的な言葉の運びが高く評価されている。感情を単純な解決へ導かず、痛みやためらいを残したまま詩的な快楽へ変える点が強みとされる。
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書評では、孤独や欲望を名づける繊細さ、読者とのあいだに突然の接続を生む比喩の力が注目されている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- 発売日
- 2018-01-23
- ページ数
- 55ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.63 x 1.57 x 21.82 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374290269
- ISBN-10
- 0374290261
- 価格
- 4831 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets “What has restlessness been for?” In Wild Is the Wind , Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named—love at once restless, reckless, and yet desired for its potential to bring stability. In the process, he pitches estrangement against communion, examines the past as history versus the past as memory, and reflects on the past’s capacity both to teach and to mislead us—also to make us hesitate in the face of love, given the loss and damage that are, often enough, love’s fallout. How “to say no to despair”? How to take perhaps that greatest risk, the risk of believing in what offers no guarantee? These poems that, in their wedding of the philosophical, meditative, and lyric modes, mark a new stage in Phillips’s remarkable work, stand as further proof that “if Carl Phillips had not come onto the scene, we would have needed to invent him. His idiosyncratic style, his innovative method, and his unique voice are essential steps in the evolution of the craft” (Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review ).
Carl Phillips is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Reconnaissance , winner of the PEN Poetry Award and the Lambda Literary Award, and Double Shadow , winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
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I really enjoy Phillips' poetry, and his latest collection is as strong as always. Not overly decorated to obscure their meaning, his poems in their personal and philosophical reflections about life and relationships often lead me to reflect on my own past and relationships in a thoughtful manner, sometimes appreciating them in new ways. It's often said that the world would be better off if everyone were to read something or other, and for me Phillips' poetry is such a body of work.
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Wild Is the Wind is one of may books of poetry by Carl Phillips. Together they all reveal the mind of one who excels inside the mysteries of life, a kind of retrospective with mellifluous bite, the songs of a master of rhyme and knowledge, the work, the makings of a true poet. Congratulations! --ABH
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