Spring 2008 - University of Georgia Press

Announcing The VQR Poetry Series
Series Editor, Ted Genoways
Ted Genoways has been the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review since 2003. Under his editorship
the VQR has received two National Magazine Awards and has been nominated eight other times.
Genoways is the editor of numerous books and is the author of Bullroarer, which won the Samuel
French Morse Poetry Prize, the Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, and the Nebraska Book Award.
Field Folly Snow
Poems by Cecily Parks
Carrie Covington
Boy
Poems by Patrick Phillips
Peter Dant Waldo Jaquith
The poems in this collection are meditations on the natural
world, written from the perspective of what Li-Young Lee
has aptly termed “a passionate interiority.” The history
and geography of the American West inspire many of the
poems’ investigations of the environment and the role of the
individual in relation to that environment. In Cecily Parks’s
landscape made strange by human consciousness, being lost
is a requirement, though not a guarantee, of being found.
“What an intriguing book. Parks isn’t trying to close the
coffin lid on language. This is fresh work with a surpassingly
delicate sense of language. This is a totally admirable
volume.”—Jim Harrison
Cecily Parks’s chapbook, Cold Work, won the 2005 Poetry
Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship. Her
poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including
Best New Poets 2007 and Tin House, and she has an essay in
A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise: Twenty Young Writers on
Finding a Place in the Natural World. She is a PhD candidate
in English at CUNY Graduate Center.
March
5 1 ⁄2 x 8 1 ⁄2 | 96 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3117-1
This second collection, a follow-up to Patrick Phillips’s
award-winning debut, navigates the course of the male
experience, and particularly young fatherhood. Like Virgil’s
Aeneas, the book’s central figure is in the middle time of
life, a grown man with an aging father on his shoulders and
a young son at his hand. Phillips’s plainspoken and moving
lyrics add an important voice to the poetry of home as he
struggles to reconcile fatherhood and boyhood, present and
past, and the ache of loving what must be lost.
“In sparse, deft, and elegant language, Phillips’s remarkable
second book of poems, Boy, places the poet midway between
the lives of his parents and the lives of his children, where
‘the endless dream / of childhood’ has given way to the
reality that ‘whole human beings / sprang from us.’ From this
vantage point, he celebrates the wonderful simultaneity of
experience that allows him to be, all at once, father, son, and
boy.”—Michael Collier, author of Dark Wild Realm
Patrick Phillips’s first book, Chattahoochee, was selected
by Alice Quinn, Robert Wrigley, and Robert Pinsky for
the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and also received a
“Discovery”/The Nation Prize from the Unterberg Poetry
Center. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University
of Copenhagen, and his translations of the Danish poet
Paul la Cour received the Sjoberg Translation Prize of the
American-Scandinavian Foundation. He is currently an
assistant professor of English at Drew University.
March
5 1 ⁄2 x 8 1 ⁄2 | 72 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3119-5
Poetry
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