Pale Colors in a Tall Field

Pale Colors in a Tall Field

Title: Pale Colors in a Tall Field
Author: Carl Phillips
Release: 2020-03-03
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Fiction
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Pale Colors in a Tall Field Carl Phillips
This program is read by the author.

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.


Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten.

The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives, in turn, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender, dynamic, and startling collections yet.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux