Poetry. Robert Phillips's NOW AND THEN: NEW & SELECTED POEMS are all he wishes to preserve from five decades of writing. In the words of James Dickey, Phillips's collection of poems is "engaging, open, and accessible, his subjects painstakingly explored." Drawing from ten past books of poetry and pulling in new work, this is a collection of poems with a "wry, self-deprecating intimacy and charm... not like anyone else writing today," says Carolyn Kizer. X.J. Kennedy says, "Robert Phillips is about the only living U.S. poet ...
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Poetry. Robert Phillips's NOW AND THEN: NEW & SELECTED POEMS are all he wishes to preserve from five decades of writing. In the words of James Dickey, Phillips's collection of poems is "engaging, open, and accessible, his subjects painstakingly explored." Drawing from ten past books of poetry and pulling in new work, this is a collection of poems with a "wry, self-deprecating intimacy and charm... not like anyone else writing today," says Carolyn Kizer. X.J. Kennedy says, "Robert Phillips is about the only living U.S. poet who never bores me." His prizes include an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award in poetry, and he teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, Texas.
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Very Good in Good jacket. H2-A first edition (stated) hardcover book in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, and crease on the edges and corners, label on the front with some chipping, scattered scratches, dents, rubbing, scuffing, light foxing and stains, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book lightly cocked, some bumped corners and dents, some scattered light foxing and stains on the page edges, a few small patch residue on the contents page, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 223 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Robert Phillips was an American poet and professor of English at the University of Houston. He was the author or editor of more than 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, poetry criticism and other works. In 1998 he was named a John and Rebecca Moores Scholar at University of Houston university. At college Phillips double majored in Advertising and English. His first job was that of Admissions Director at Syracuse University which Phillips called his least interesting job because the students kept asking the same questions. He found an advertising job with Benton & Bowles in New York City in the 1960s and liked it because it combined his interest in writing, art, writing. While at the company, he worked on accounts for Revlon, Clearasil and Ford Motor Company. After work he continued to write poetry and fiction. His first book, Inner Weather was published in 1966. He and his wife transferred to the office in Dusseldorf, Germany where he had opportunities to travel to places like Paris and London. Eventually he returned to New York and worked at several other agencies. Phillips continued publishing while working in advertising, while teaching creative writing part time at the New School at nights. Eventually, he decided to go full time in teaching. (Phillips later directed the Creative Writing Program at University of Houston from 1991 to 1996). Phillip's writings have received a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts Letters Award in Literature, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Fellowships, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal, and Texas Institute of Letters membership.
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8vo, pp. 223. Bound in publisher's cloth, fine in dj. Inscribed by the author to poet William Jay Smith: "For Bill Smith | Whose life & work & | inspiration have meant | so very much to me. | Fondly | Bob Phillips" Laid in is an advertising mailer for the book; and four TLSg TLS from the author to Smith. poetry.
