Spinach Days by Robert Phillips - 9780801864513

Name: Spinach Days by Robert Phillips - 9780801864513
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press

Spinach DaysAuthor(s): Robert Phillips\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801864513, 978-0801864513\nSynopsis\nRobert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected \""transition generation\""-poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Spinach Days is his sixth full-length collection, following his critically acclaimed Breakdown Lane (Johns Hopkins, 1994), named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. In content and in its various use of forms, Spinach Days is Phillips' most innovative book yet. There are long narratives and short lyrics, villanelles and somonkas, haiku and found poems, free verse and eclogues, on subjects ranging from St. Francis to the Holocaust, from Jung's concept of the anima to a particular bit of American folklore on the gangster John Dillinger. Throughout, the poet's memory is the cohesive force, mixing events of childhoo.