Carl Phillips
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Maybe not ourselves, for once, but each other
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Not the wilder doves;
not their blurred machinery leaving the less wild doves behind
Carl Phillips is the author of twelve collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Silverchest. His honors, among many others, include the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Theodore Roethke Foundation Memorial Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry. He has four times been named a finalist for The National Book Award.