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.

Author City: Charlotte, NC USA

Lance Phillips was born in 1970 in Stuttgard, Germany. He spent the next twelve or so years shuttling from or toward certain things in Las Vegas, NV, Del Rio, TX, New Castle, PA and Charlotte, NC, were he continues to reside, though now accompanied by his wife, son and daughter. He attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has published the first three books,--CORPUS SOCIUS (Ahsahta Press, 2002), CUR ALIQUID VIDI (Ahsahta Press, 2004), and THESE INDICIUM TALES (Ahsahta Press, 2010)--of a continuous text begun in 1996 and still in process. He has also completed the first three books, Imposture Notebook, Scrawl and The Die-er, of an extended fiction project called The Text+Body+Invention Project, for which he is currently seeking a publisher. He is the creator and facilitator of the interview blog Here Comes Everybody. Certain of his texts have appeared in a variety of places including translations into Dutch and Italian.

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