University of Arkansas Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-1-61075-094-3 | Paper: 978-1-55728-775-5 Library of Congress Classification PS3616.H465C48 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner of the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
From the author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America and the National Book Award finalist Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, here is the first collection from award-winning poet Patrick Phillips.
A river runs through Patrick Phillips’s collection Chattahoochee, and through a family saga as powerful and poignant as the landscape in which it unfolds. Here are tales of a vanished South, elegies for the lost, and glimpses of what Flannery O’Connor called the “action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.” In language delicate and muscular, tender and raw-boned, Phillips writes of family, place, and that mythic conjunction of the two we call home.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Phillips has won a “Discovery” / The Nation Award from the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, a Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in Poetry, the New England Review, Agni, the Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Rivendell, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. A past Fulbright Fellow, he has held fellowships at the MacDowell and Millay colonies. He is currently a Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellow at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
The Doves 000
I
The Rules 000
My Lovely Assistant 000
To Fortune 000
Pictures of the Dead 000
The Chimney 000
Elegy Ending in a Dream 000
Blue Ridge Bestiary 000
The Doe 000
In the Museum of Your Last Day 000
Twelve Views of My Father 000
The Mussel 000
Baptism 000
II
Chattahoochee 000
III
To the Muse, from Way Downtown 000
My Father, Playing Tennis 000
Two Figures 000
Look 000
A Valediction 000
Ars Poetica: Hitting the Curve 000
Ars Videndi 000
Brass Knuckles 000
The Reptilian Ancestry of Birds 000
Masque for My Family 000
The Night 000
In Solitude 000
The Danaïd 000
My Brother, on Lake Lanier 000
The Flood 000
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University of Arkansas Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-1-61075-094-3 Paper: 978-1-55728-775-5
Winner of the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
From the author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America and the National Book Award finalist Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, here is the first collection from award-winning poet Patrick Phillips.
A river runs through Patrick Phillips’s collection Chattahoochee, and through a family saga as powerful and poignant as the landscape in which it unfolds. Here are tales of a vanished South, elegies for the lost, and glimpses of what Flannery O’Connor called the “action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.” In language delicate and muscular, tender and raw-boned, Phillips writes of family, place, and that mythic conjunction of the two we call home.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Phillips has won a “Discovery” / The Nation Award from the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, a Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in Poetry, the New England Review, Agni, the Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Rivendell, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. A past Fulbright Fellow, he has held fellowships at the MacDowell and Millay colonies. He is currently a Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellow at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
The Doves 000
I
The Rules 000
My Lovely Assistant 000
To Fortune 000
Pictures of the Dead 000
The Chimney 000
Elegy Ending in a Dream 000
Blue Ridge Bestiary 000
The Doe 000
In the Museum of Your Last Day 000
Twelve Views of My Father 000
The Mussel 000
Baptism 000
II
Chattahoochee 000
III
To the Muse, from Way Downtown 000
My Father, Playing Tennis 000
Two Figures 000
Look 000
A Valediction 000
Ars Poetica: Hitting the Curve 000
Ars Videndi 000
Brass Knuckles 000
The Reptilian Ancestry of Birds 000
Masque for My Family 000
The Night 000
In Solitude 000
The Danaïd 000
My Brother, on Lake Lanier 000
The Flood 000
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