Watching the Surface for a Sign
Patrick Phillips, Drew University
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Overview:
Patrick Phillips grew up in Forsyth County, Georgia,
at the northern edge of the Atlanta metropolitan region. Recorded
near the town of Cumming and along Lake Lanier, the poems presented
here delve into family, place, conflict, and time's effects. Phillips
finds mystery and ambivalence in childhood's physical and emotional
landscapes, scratches the idyllic patina of family lore, and moves
between the surfaces and depths of the natural world.
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Readings:
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"The Flood"
(0:57 min.) |
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"Chattahoochee" (excerpt)
(1:35 min.) |
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"The Chimney"
(1:23 min.) |
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"Brass Knuckles"
(0:59 min.) |
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"Heaven"
(0:38 min.) |
About Patrick Phillips:
Patrick Phillips won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize for his first
book, Chattahoochee, and his second, Boy, was published
by the University of Georgia Press in 2008. His poems have appeared in
many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, and The
American Poetry Review, and his honors include fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and the
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches
writing and literature at Drew University.
"Watching the Surface for a Sign" is part of the Poets in Place series,
a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University’s Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.
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