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Speak Low is Carl Phillips at his meditative apex.

Carl Phillips is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems (FSG, ), and Speak Low (FSG.

Poet Carl Phillips (GRS'93) will read from his most recent poetry collection, Speak Low, at the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture on Thursday.

Award-winning poet Carl Phillips (GRS'93) returns to his alma mater to read from his new collection, Speak Low, in the semiannual Lowell.

Carl Phillips is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Speak Low () that was a finalist for the National.

Carl Phillips' other collections include Silverchest, Speak Low and Poems Seven.

The reader sits with these poems on levels both conscious and unconscious; concrete and abstract. Even when it seems Phillips is striving toward the most literal sentence he is capable of writing, the unraveling ideas of observation as symbol, aesthetic and perception arise.

These are not poems to be captured back; each time the reader comes to them with a new sense of Phillips’ gently lush strokes and washes, but also of his implacable reserve and strength.

Phillips draws from poets as wide as Elizabeth Bishop, “the leaves/of the fronds dividing, re-dividing, not so much like/knowledge as curiosity, what knowing comes from,” to Sharon Olds, almost making fun of the confessional, “And the light for once/ not sexual, just light.” He calls up the voices of Octavio Paz, who says “do you hear the footsteps in the next room?/ not here, not there: you hear them/in another time that is now.” Ph