Poems--Cover

Luck -- Just south of the kingdom -- Spoils, dividing -- Words of love -- The point of the lambs -- A force, and would consume us -- Roman glass -- This, the pattern -- Stagger -- Medallion -- Regalia figure -- Strung absentia -- Recumbent -- Lustrum -- For the falconer -- Tether -- Preamble -- Chamber music -- Little dance outside the ruins of unreason -- The lost chorus -- The pinnacle -- Familiar -- Chosen figure -- Caravan -- Safari figure -- Yours, and the room after -- The figure, the boundary, the light -- Revision

"In these lean and dramatic poems, Carl Phillips considers the substance of connection--between lover and beloved, mind and body, talon and fist--and tends the cable of mutual trust between soaring figure and shadowed ground"--Back cover