Annal:2002 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
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Results of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Tether: Poems
- 2002 Kingsley Tufts winner
- Score: 10.52
In the art of falconry, during training the tether between the gloved fist and the raptor’s anklets is gradually lengthened and eventually unnecessary. In these new lyric poems, Carl Phillips considers the substance of connection—between lover and beloved, mind and body, talon and perch—and ts the cable of mutual trust between soaring figure and shadowed ground.
In The Tether, his fifth book, Phillips’s characteristically cascading poetic line is leaner and more dramatic than ever.”
