Philip Fried's first collection of poetry, Mutual Trespasses (Ion), recounted the fantasies, adventures, and mishaps of a character named God. In Quantum Genesis, he completes the God series and writes about a variety of other outsiders.
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". . . I find much to recommend in Quantum Genesis. Its language crackles with energy, its lines are lean and hard, and its tone is often wryly humorous, making serious subject matter more accessible and more palatable. There isn't a weak poem in the collection." -- Robert Collins, Birmingham Poetry Review, Fall-Winter, 1997, No. 17
"In the lyric today, the syntax defines the structure of the singer's imagination, just as it did for the seventeenth-century lyricists. Here's an example from Philip Fried's elegantly intellectual Quantum Genesis . . . Philip Fried is a meticulous craftsman of the passionate." -- Marion K. Stocking, Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 1998, Volume 48, No. 3
"Ultimately, and most impressively, what rings most resonantly throughout this book is this very ambition, which far exceeds so much of other contemporary verse . . ." -- Alan Michael Parker, Chelsea, Fall, 1997, Issue 63
"In the lyric today, the syntax defines the structure of the singer's imagination, just as it did for the seventeenth-century lyricists. Here's an example from Philip Fried's elegantly intellectual Quantum Genesis . . . Philip Fried is a meticulous craftsman of the passionate." -- Marion K. Stocking, Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 1998, Volume 48, No. 3
"Ultimately, and most impressively, what rings most resonantly throughout this book is this very ambition, which far exceeds so much of other contemporary verse . . ." -- Alan Michael Parker, Chelsea, Fall, 1997, Issue 63
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Philip Fried is a New York-based poet, editor, and poetry advocate. His two books of poetry are Mutual Trespasses (Ion, 1988; now distributed by Zohar) and Quantum Genesis (Zohar, 1997). Poetry Flash praised Mutual Trespasses as "shamelessly, marvellously rhetorical." And A.R. Ammons called Quantum Genesis "a major new testament." In 1980, Mr. Fried founded The Manhattan Review, an international poetry journal that he continues to edit. This little magazine was "highly recommended" by the Library Journal. Mr. Fried also edited poetry for a book of photographs and poems titled Acquainted with the Night (Rizzoli, 1997). As a poetry advocate, Mr. Fried campaigned to increase the number of poetry reviews in newspapers.
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Fingering chunks of soap with blue veins and out-of-date warranties for appliances, I dreamed, inhaling the smells of metal, oilcloth, wax, and the process had a certain helplessness mixed in with wonder: Where did that thing come from and what is it good for? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Fingering chunks of soap with blue veins and out-of-date warranties for appliances, I dreamed, inhaling the smells of metal, oilcloth, wax, and the process had a certain helplessness mixed in with wonder: Where did that thing come from and what is it good for? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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