Circumstances Beyond Our Control: Poems

By Robert S. Phillips

Book Overview

Robert Phillips is a prominent member of America's neglected transition generation of poets--those born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. His work has been included in many anthologies and textbooks. He gathers for his seventh full-length collection his best poems of the past six years, from dramatic monologues to personal lyrics. While most are free-verse, there are also sonnets, a villanelle, a ballade, an abecedarian, found poems, prose poems, haiku, and clerihews.

Divided into three sections--Fire and Obsession, A Little Light Music, and Rituals--this new volume reveals Phillips's playfulness and good humor, his high intelligence, and his musicality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801883784
• ISBN13: 9780801883781
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher