Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020A new collection of poems from one of America's most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the War I'm a song, changing. I'm a light rain falling through a vast darkness toward a different darkness. Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "ongoing quest;" Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial