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Circumstances Beyond Our Control : Poems by Robert Phillips (2006, Hardcover)
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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.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801883768
ISBN-139780801883767
eBay Product ID (ePID)48419449
Product Key Features
Book TitleCircumstances Beyond Our Control : Poems
Number of Pages88 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General
Publication Year2006
GenrePoetry, Literary Collections
AuthorRobert Phillips
Book SeriesJohns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight8.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.7 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-024564
ReviewsPhillips is a skillful poet of occasions, imitations, and pastiche, all offered up with a serious yet insouciant expression of 'I'll try this, too.', Martyrs Mirror has shaped the Anabaptist tradition more powerfully than any book besides the Bible... Like its subject material, Weaver-Zercher's book is both ambitious and impressive. It constitutes an overview-in-miniature of Anabaptist history. Weaver-Zercher's book is the invaluable latest entry in this ongoing and highly contested debate. Just as some ministers recommend that van Braght's text grace every household, Martyrs Mirror: A Social History belongs in the repertoire of all historically minded Anabaptists, a mirror from our troubled past onto this uncertain present., "An originally and consistently entertaining poet. Robert Phillips's plainspoken eloquence provides a tonic for readers who find that much contemporary poetry has little to say to them." -- Review of Texas Books, "Whether admiring Phillips's exceptional craftsmanship, enjoying the humor that infiltrates even his most serious poems, or warming to the deep humaneness of his spirit, a reader feels at home in this collection, and in good company." -- Clarinda Harriss, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire is extremely readable, and I would recommend it most particularly to anyone seeking a brief introduction to several of the key debates in medical history for the period: the notion of the medical marketplace; the dichotomy (or, rather, absence thereof) between temple and secular medicine; the links between the spread of empire and that of physicians, medical ideas, and pharmacological ingredients., "A high-spirited mix of playfulness, memory and social observation." -- Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle, "Whether admiring Phillips's exceptional craftsmanship, enjoying the humor that infiltrates even his most serious poems, or warming to the deep humaneness of his spirit, a reader feels at home in this collection, and in good company." -- Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Clear, direct, accessible, and frequently very funny, Robert Phillips' poems should be better known., "Phillips is a skillful poet of occasions, imitations, and pastiche, all offered up with a serious yet insouciant expression of 'I'll try this, too.'" -- The Hudson Review, "Phillips is a skillful poet of occasions, imitations, and pastiche, all offered up with a serious yet insouciant expression of 'I'll try this, too.'" -- Hudson Review, ""Martyrs Mirror has shaped the Anabaptist tradition more powerfully than any book besides the Bible... Like its subject material, Weaver-Zercher's book is both ambitious and impressive. It constitutes an overview-in-miniature of Anabaptist history. Weaver-Zercher's book is the invaluable latest entry in this ongoing and highly contested debate. Just as some ministers recommend that van Braght's text grace every household, Martyrs Mirror: A Social History belongs in the repertoire of all historically minded Anabaptists, a mirror from our troubled past onto this uncertain present."", "Clear, direct, accessible, and frequently very funny, Robert Phillips' poems should be better known." -- Peter Schmitt, Sun-Sentinel, "As in his previous collections, Phillips proves smart and readable and a genial companion." -- Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle, Whether admiring Phillips's exceptional craftsmanship, enjoying the humor that infiltrates even his most serious poems, or warming to the deep humaneness of his spirit, a reader feels at home in this collection, and in good company., An originally and consistently entertaining poet. Robert Phillips's plainspoken eloquence provides a tonic for readers who find that much contemporary poetry has little to say to them.
Table Of ContentAcknowledgmentsI. 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
SynopsisRobert 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., 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., 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., 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 ......
LC Classification NumberPS3566.H5C57 2006
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