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A Study Guide for Carl Phillips's "All It Takes"
A Study Guide for Carl Phillips's "All It Takes"
A Study Guide for Carl Phillips's "All It Takes"
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A Study Guide for Carl Phillips's "All It Takes"

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A Study Guide for Carl Phillips's "All It Takes," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 26, 2016
ISBN9781535817875
A Study Guide for Carl Phillips's "All It Takes"

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    A Study Guide for Carl Phillips's "All It Takes" - Gale

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    All It Takes

    Carl Phillips

    2004

    Introduction

    Carl Phillips, the author of All It Takes, is one of the fastest-rising stars in the literary world. From his first collection of poems in 1992, In the Blood, through his seventh collection, The Rest of Love, published in 2004, he has won numerous awards and honors. While it is often lauded for its treatment of the black and gay themes that are central to his identity, Phillips's work is usually deeply imbued with classical allusions and complex imagery that makes his readers see what they know with a new sense of enlightenment.

    In All It Takes (from the book The Rest of Love), Phillips explores the things of the physical world that cannot be directly observed—those things that are knowable only through, as he puts it, the visible effects by which we know them. The poem moves with ease from observation of common occurrences to reflection on those uncommon events (like the last berries clinging to a dying vine in winter) to suggestions that what we know of the world is nothing more than what the ancient cultures knew when they devised their own mythologies. Although these ideas could steer a less commanding poet into different directions, Phillips stays on course, holding All It Takes together as a dreamy meditation on the nature of

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