{"product_id":"phillips-carl-sirhb","title":"[04\/13\/27] Phillips, Carl: SIR (HB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 13, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA new book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs this who I must be,\u003cbr\u003eor maybe just\u003cbr\u003ewhat I am?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sir\" is an honorific, a title that indicates the superiority of its recipient, the subordination of its speaker. Carl Phillips's \u003ci\u003eSIR\u003c\/i\u003e examines power and submission, abandon and restraint, whether in our personal, intimate relationships with others and ourselves, or in our relationships with such abstract masters as grief, memory, desire, regret, and the traumas of history. These are all things we're told to try to overcome, to gain mastery of. Do we have a choice, though? And if so, how to choose 'correctly, ' in a time when appearance and reality are constantly in flux, when hierarchy is revealed to be a matter of perspective, when even language itself is suspect, with its ability both to structure emotion and to estrange us from it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn poems filled with tenderness, moral inquiry, and self-reckoning, stretched across natural landscapes both familiar and uncertain, \u003ci\u003eSIR\u003c\/i\u003e confirms-once again-that Carl Phillips is one of our finest and most enduring poets writing today.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45361785405463,"sku":"9780374622176","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71g-J2WrglL._SL1500.jpg?v=1791069668","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/phillips-carl-sirhb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}