Circumstances Beyond Our Control : Poems

Phillips Robert S.

ISBN 10: 0801883784 / ISBN 13: 9780801883781

Published by The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006

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72pp.

Seller Inventory # AB113121

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Circumstances Beyond Our Control : Poems
• Publisher: The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801883784
• ISBN 13: 9780801883781
• Binding: Card Wrappers
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • A-Z Secondhand
  • American Poetry

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Robert Phillips is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor at the University of Houston and literary executor of the American poets Delmore Schwartz and Karl Shapiro. His poetry has won an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Creative Artists' Public Service Award from New York State, and a Pushcart Prize, among others. His collection Breakdown Lane was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review.