Poetry. Phillip Foss's sixth full-length book of poetry is a stark, stalking meditation on time, language, and landscape in which all three create "a harmonics / of disharmony" composing, decomposing, and recomposing "the journey of our unraveling." Jack Spicer contends that the poems in a book should "echo and reecho against each other," and the six poems comprising IMPERFECT POVERTY do just that, generating a "cacophony of spheres" in a poetic universe oscillating between the cycles of creation and destruction, birth and death that author the human and inhuman realms of being: "you are replicating / the condensation of every governable mind."
Author City: San Juan Pueblo, NM USA