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Poems
  • ISBN-13: 9780801883781
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Robert Phillips
  • Price: AUD $45.99
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2006
  • Format: Paperback 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, clerihews, and a concrete poem on Anne Sexton's eyes. Divided into three sections—“Fire and Obsession, “A Little Light Music, and “Rituals—this new volume reveals Phillips' 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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