Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems and the girl he plans

and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front

the Medal of Honor

And more to come

The strange and mysterious story they tell

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Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems and the girl he plansA powerful, inventive collection from one of Americas most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phillipss 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