In this episode, we talk with David Baker about "To Autumn" by Carl Phillips, exploring the way Phillips masterfully achieves a sense of intimacy and restlessness in a lyric ode that tosses between two parts while incorporating the sonnet tradition.
For more on Carl Phillips, please visit the Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/carl-phillips).
For more on David Baker, please visit the Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/david-baker).
"To Autumn" has been read from Carl Phillips' latest book of poetry, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (https://www.amazon.com/Then-War-Selected-Poems-2007-2020/dp/0374603766).
The latest book by Carl Phillips is a collection of essays called My Trade Is Mystery. Purchase at Yale University Press (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300257878/my-trade-is-mystery/) or Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/My-Trade-Mystery-Meditations-Writing/dp/0300257872) or wherever you get your books.
