Poetry. "'Why did I have to see something' translates the title to Lance Phillips' extraordinary second collection, and if the question is Ovid's, it also remains any poet's who follows the exilic logic of language. Revisioning myth, CUR ALIQUID VIDI mines the eros in language and discovers how it must, ultimately, reach agape. What is the purpose of the exile's word to the community which excludes him. To be instructed by what is absent. Read and be instructed" - Claudia Keelan.

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.