Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems [Paperback]

Wanda Phipps (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 22, 2004

A collection of Wanda Phipps's best poems from her writing project in which she wrote every day right after she awoke, Wake-Up Calls is a fascinating reflection of the many different moods a person can have in the morning and a very personal glimpse into the author's life (she was moving into a new home at the time). Phipps explores issues of identity and self with a freshness of voice and imagery fortuitously captured in the state between dreaming and fully waking up.

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About the Author

Wanda Phipps is a poet, performer, translator, and journalist. She received her B.A. in English with a Theater Concentration from Barnard College of Columbia University, studied poetry with Bernadette Mayer, Allen Ginsberg and others at the Naropa Institute. Phipps also studied theater and acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. She is the author of the CD rom Zither Mood (Faux Press), the chapbooks Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), Your Last Illusion or Break-Up Sonnets (Situations Press), and After the Mishap (Faux Press). Her poems have appeared in more than sixty publications, including Salon, Agni, Exquisite Corpse, How2, The World, Hanging Loose, Shampoo, and Boog Lit. She has also been featured in the anthologies: Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets (St. Martin's Press), O•blek: Writing From The New Coast (o•blek editions), The Portable Boog Reader (Boog Literature) and the Boston Poetry Marathon 2003 Postcard Set ! (Boog City). She is a contributing editor for Big Bridge, and served on the editorial board of Lungfull! She has performed on stages all over the U.S. as a poet and with her various bands. Her poetry has been the subject of a short film entitled Filmpoem for Wanda Phipps by Joel Schlemowitz. Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems is her first full-length collection.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Soft Skull Press (June 22, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 193236031X
• ISBN-13: 978-1932360318
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,856,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dreaming goddess in a City of dreams, August 13, 2004

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L. Galluccio "Lo Galluccio" (Cambridge MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Paperback)

Wanda Phipp's poems are deliciously spare and delightful to read. She balances the acutal with the metaphysicaL in some acute and beautiful ways through the spaces she moves in and out of:
"a kiss not a kiss but a city operational I am with tea and mobility" #28 Like a Wallace Stevens orange on a Sunday morning, but without the formalisms, these poems glow with a garden of City delights and sometimes, doubts. But underlying the collection is a journey, and a celebration of being an artist in New York, which can be both a city of constraints (survival work) and semi-or subconscious visions and serendipities...From many angles she portrays her own musings and the City's light. Read it!

5.0 out of 5 stars A Strong, Original and Healing Voice, August 8, 2004

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Espoo Famagusta "Queen of the Darned" (chelsea,ny,usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Paperback)

I was given this book by a friend. Since I have very strong opinions about poetry--having grown up reading Anne sexton, May Sarton, Auden, etc--I thought, "I'm not even going to look at this. Nice cover, though."
Imagine my surprise when I glanced through it, and was so caught up that i sat down, poured a glass of wine, and read all the way through. i called my mom and read her a poem. I read one to my husband. I read one to the cat. I was surprised: the poems are seemingly unassuming, but their power accumulates, and they finally offer a true and piercingly insightful look into a modern woman's real heart.
This book had become part of my life. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

5.0 out of 5 stars inspirational, August 7, 2004

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Tommy Kates (Brooklyn, N.Y.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Paperback)

Wanda Phipps' 66 Morning Poems, teaches us to be more in-tune with our own morning thoughts as we read the ones she has captured here in this book. Succinct crystal clear observation is the fuel Wanda Phipps provides her reader so to feel and see for themselves. Wanda Phipps does and will continue to make the world a better place. SEE HER LIVE!