Where language becomes music, and poetry becomes an exploration of itself.
In Poems with Rhyming Parts, the seventh volume of his ongoing poetic cycle, Phil John Kneis experiments with rhythm, rhyme, multilingual expression, and poetic form to examine how language shapes memory, identity, love, loss, and the search for meaning. Moving from intimate lyrical reflections to expansive philosophical "syllogies," the collection invites readers into a world where words are not merely tools of expression but subjects of inquiry in their own right.
At the heart of the volume stands Pastiche, an ambitious multilingual post-modern meditation that revisits more than two hundred earlier poems, weaving them into a new reflection on creativity, culture, history, and the evolution of a lifelong poetic project. Alongside it are musical sequences, dramatic cycles, and shorter poems that blend philosophy, literature, mythology, psychology, and everyday experience into a richly layered exploration of human existence.
Both intellectually adventurous and deeply personal, Poems with Rhyming Parts celebrates the musicality of language while asking how words can illuminate—and sometimes obscure—the realities they seek to describe.
For readers of philosophical poetry, experimental literature, multilingual poetry, and contemporary literary verse.