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CHATTAHOOCHEE (Kate Tufts Discovery Award)

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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.

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.

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.

Chattahoochee is an impressive compilation of verse by poetry award winner Patrick Phillips who is currently a Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellow at New York University. This is poetry that is spare, sophisticated, and above all, memorable. The Flood: Two-thirds of earth, and most of us, is water./Come life, come death's black, fathomless water.//At the mirror I try to picture the soul./I raise my cupped hands, full of water.//And think of my birth: the scalpel, my mother's/skin parting like a sea of red water.//In the dream of the flood I'm always the one/looking back, turning into a pillar of water.//I drag a stick through my reflection: there lies/another, whose name is written in water.