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.
Patrick Phillips

Presentation Sections:
Readings | Interview with Natasha Trethewey | Recommended Resources and Selected Writings

Readings:
"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.)


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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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Presentation Sections:
Readings | Interview with Natasha Trethewey | Recommended Resources and Selected Writings

Published: 14 April 2009

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