Breakdown Lane (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) - Hardcover

Phillips

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801848547 ISBN 13: 9780801848544

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Since the 1970s, Robert Phillips has built a reputation as one of the outstanding American poets of his generation. Now, in his fifth full collection of verse, that reputation is both confirmed and consolidated, These are thoughtful, substantive poems that may make the reader smile and reflect. There are autobiographical poems about the poet's childhood on Delaware's Eastern Shore, elegies for the recent dead in American arts, extended metaphors on suburban existence, and a long section of poems in which the poet courts, wins, then loses the Muse. Both in voice and performance, "Breakdown Lane" is a consistent and engaging volume.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Phillips is director of the Creative Writing Program and professor of English at the University of Houston.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801848547
• ISBN 13: 9780801848544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 88