Patrick Phillips has won a "Discovery" / The Nation Award from the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, a Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in Poetry, the New England Review, Agni, the Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Rivendell, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. A past Fulbright Fellow, he has held fellowships at the MacDowell and Millay colonies. He is currently a Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellow at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
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Patrick Phillips' first book, Chattahoochee, received a 2003 "Discovery" / The Nation Award, and was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2004. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including recent issues of Poetry, DoubleTake, and Ploughshares. His honors include the Sjoberg Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Pablo Neruda Prize, and a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently a MacCracken Fellow at New York University.
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Elegy Ending in a Dream
I though it was like being broken.
It's like being filled with cold sand.
I thought it was fleeting, like passion.
All night in your place the plate shines.
I thought love was the meaning of heaven.
Even heaven turns to shit on my tongue.
I thought we die meant like the sun.
All day the sun sinks in the limbs.
I thought a squirrel's nest had blown down.
And found nestled inside it your hands.
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PATRICK PHILLIPS' second book, Boy, was published by University of Georgia Press in 2008. His first, Chattahoochee, won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He has received support from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in 2009. He teaches at Drew University.
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Piercing poetry,
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This review is from: CHATTAHOOCHEE (Kate Tufts Discovery Award) (Paperback)
Such an amazing book!He pierces the heart of his subject matter to whittle it down to it's most important truth. Resonant poems full of history and painful truths. I can't believe I waited so long to find this book.
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Amazing Person, Amazing Story,
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We were lucky enough to have this amazing poet visit our class today. He happened to go the same school as us, Lakeview Academy in Gainesville. He is an amazing poet and doesn't care about making poetry the traditional way, he writes what he feels. This is evident in how many of his poems do not rhyme, but he feels his words. He is underrated as a writer and I hope soon people will become more affiliated with this wonderful writer.
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Stunning,
By Georgia Reader (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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A stunning book. Our children will be studying Patrick Phillips in some future edition of the Norton Anthology, and footnotes and professors will explain the references to photographs of people lost in the World Trade Center or the loss of farms to make Lake Lanier. But everyone will see for themselves, without need for explanation, what family and place were like at a specific time and that time's place in eternity.
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