Poetry. "Long ago, those adventurous, uncompromisingly 'broken' peoms of THE TENNIS COURT OATH, as well as the radiant pieces of language (and silence) etched onto the page by poets such as Celan and Beckett, showed us how far down the Via Negativa our aesthetics could go. Lance Phillips has added to that tradition a poetry which is elliptical not because it has been half erased to confound the authorities, but simply because it is humbly alert to the limitations and possiblilities of linguistic expression"--Christopher Davis. "Lance Phillips is a poet who means to act, and his meaning takes the measure of us all"--Donald Revell.
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"In their flamboyant telegraphy, in such wild skins, the poems assign a new task to the Human Form Divine." -- Donald Revell
"Lance Phillips is humbly alert to the limitations and possibilities of linguistic expression. [Corpus Socius] is beautiful work." -- Christopher Davis
"[Phillips attempts] a broadening of understanding heightened by word play.... He emphasizes suggestion and possibility." -- Camille-Yvette Welsch, ForeWord Magazine
"Lance Phillips is humbly alert to the limitations and possibilities of linguistic expression. [Corpus Socius] is beautiful work." -- Christopher Davis
"[Phillips attempts] a broadening of understanding heightened by word play.... He emphasizes suggestion and possibility." -- Camille-Yvette Welsch, ForeWord Magazine
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Lance Phillips's rich and challenging work rewards examination. Camille-Yvette Welch, reviewing CORPUS SOCIUS in ForeWord Magazine, perceptively wrote: "Phillips...begins by complicating the notion of the body, from body politic to the sexual body to the body of the ant colony and the flock of sparrows.... In keeping with the treasured ambiguity of postmodern poetics, his definitions are not finite and exclusive; rather, they attempt a broadening of understanding heightened by word play, a thoughtful caesura, and placement on the page.... Ultimately, this collection makes fluid the fragmented parts of the postmodern body, acknowledging at once its place as individual entity and part of the larger whole and the way in which each construction constantly intrudes on the other. It offers, in its own way, a body of poetry that is political for the genre and integral to its growth."
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