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Poems
  • ISBN-13: 9780801883767
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Robert Phillips
  • Price: AUD $84.99
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2006
  • Format: Hardback 88 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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Robert Phillips is a prominent member of America's neglected 'transition generation' of poets -- those born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. His work has been included in many anthologies and textbooks. He gathers for his seventh full-length collection his best poems of the past six years, from dramatic monologues to personal lyrics. While most are free-verse, there are also sonnets, a villanelle, a ballade, an abecedarian, found poems, prose poems, haiku, and clerihews.Divided into three sections -- 'Fire and Obsession,' 'A Little Light Music,' and 'Rituals' -- this new volume reveals Phillips's playfulness and good humor, his high intelligence, and his musicality.

AcknowledgmentsI. Fire & ObsessionThe OceanGhost StoryThe Grown-up TrainAn Empty SuitExpulsionThe Snow QueenLife ForceHomage: NerudaOde to a BananaAfter Reading The Book of QuestionsVariations on Vallejo's ""Black Stone on a White Stone""Triangle Shirtwaist Factory FireTwo Twentieth-Century American MonologuesTed Bundy, Stalker RapistTexas Cheerleader Murder PlotFamous Last WordsEndymion and SeleneMy Funny ValentineTwo for Max EbertsBlue JayTrees in SpringtimeSan Miguel de AllendeII. a little light musicMemoryLife and LimbHeadlinesMiss PerfectoResponse to Barbara Walters' Most Fatuous QuestionSoliloquy of the Ethiopian EunuchIII. ritualsSunday RitualsTwo for Mister Roscoe""Arsh Potatoes""Grandfather's CarsTo a Schoolteacher Now DeadViewingTwo SonnetsHer Life at SevenChance EncounterDays of 1964The Ruined ManBucolicsMop and NestWisteria and FenceInsomniaTwp Adaptations from Red PineWaiting for a FriendParting from a Friend on a Night in SpringChristopher IsherwoodVita

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