October 29, 2013
The Sea Sings: More Questions for Carl Phillips’s “Almost Tenderly”
In the poem “Almost Tenderly,” from Double Shadow and also Kenyon’s Radiance Versus Ordinary Light: Selected Poems by Carl Phillips, “a man, stripped, beaten” is on the shore, the sea […]
October 15, 2013
Some Initial Thoughts on the “It” in “Almost Tenderly”
My favorite poems almost answer the questions they raise, but not quite, even when they sound like they do. They tend toward resolution but don’t always reach it, even, again, […]