Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected "transition generation"—poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s.Spinach Days is his sixth full-length c
Phillips (English, U. of Houston) considers the literary interview a work of art in its own right. He demonstrates its form and usefulness in interviews with Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Sha
This book restores to print two important verse-essays on the art of poetry by one of America's most honored poets. "Trial of a Poet" was born of Karl Shapiro's serving on the jury that awarded the f
