A World (New American Poetry) - Softcover

Phillips, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557130728 ISBN 13: 9781557130723

Publisher: Sun & Moon Press, 1989

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All For Your Red Eye
And Closed, Slept, Nil
And Fog Soft Night Harbinger Summer Soft
And We Stuck With The Irresistible Vestige
An Arrest Of Cloud Of Shawl
Because It Hurts When You're In Me
Begged For It Back
A Bridge On A Cold Soviet River
But A Delta, Finger Of Cocktips A New
But Other Things Came In
But You Had The Coffee
The Calibrate Who Come
Cold Autumn
Cold Metal On The Temples
Damaged Clouds
Dark Storm Day But Hot
Doll-perfect Dark Face
Eats A Pudding That's Waking
Euripa Seduced Rides Isleward
Evening. Dark Over
Feet Your Feet
Found Your Island Play
From Adhesive. Instead Of Blood
He Awoke In A Crowd That Stared
Her Breasts Must Have Been Offered
Her Decision Against Self-slaughter
Hills Or Ladders, Tracks, Rings
An Illiad Of Protection The Rules Suspended
In A Dream You Would Fall From A Ladder
Laughing That The Skull Was Bolted To His Desk
Light Gentle Bow Today A New Curve
Looked So Long It Vanished
Loss Of Pressure: 3
Loss Of Pressure: 4
Loss Of Presure: 1
Loss Of Presure: 2
My Hands Sweated Stickum But No Web Came Out
My Mosque
The Nephew Awakened
The Old Woman Called Your Fever
On A Windy Mesa
On The Floor Where The Goddess
On This Plain To The Sea Fog
A Par
Sacrifice: 1
Sacrifice: 2
Sacrifice: 3
Sat Back. Pulse Pulsing
Saw One Dashed By Curel Waves
Scherzo: 1
Scherzo: 2
Scherzo: 3
Scherzo: 4
Scherzo: 5
A Section Of The Vital Shoulder
A Story Would Fill This Time
Survey Surveillance
Then He A Cureaucrat Became
Then Wind Came And Time
There's A Place And It's A Crater
They Would These Lips Kiss
Things Were Touching
This Was Reportage And No One Kept A Progress
To Read It Again To Check It
The Voices That Were Left
We Live In A City
What Complex Thing
Where No Rejoiner Would Change Their Minds
While Some Too Sweet Melody
Woke In Alhambra Under
You Call And The Fabric Collapses
You Called Your Heart A Flutter
You Explode Upward In The Season Of Ash
Your Cause. My Cause
Your Glistening Back
Your Whole Embrace
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Publishers Weekly

The short, mostly untitled poems in Phillips's ( The Hero Is Nothing ) second collection droop under multiple images of slumber. To wit: "We were asleep and a specter knocked" ("Sacrifice"); "Sleep, sister of drugged stupor" (untitled). The third volume in Sun & Moon's New American Poetry series may impact occasionally in celebrating subterranean, nocturnal forces, but it lacks focus. References to mythology abound, yet how they are connected--and what they signify--remain elusive. Often addressed to "you" or "she," poems nonetheless wander from their targets, with speakers only rarely characterized. Phillips's erotic sensibility is plain, as is the pleasure he takes in language, but his willingness to bury meaning and the seeming arbitrariness in his design may be evidence of artifice rather than of art.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Sun & Moon Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1557130728
• ISBN 13: 9781557130723
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 103