Poetry. Dennis Phillips' world would be one in which myth comes alive through language, in which the past can give meaning to a seemingly denigrated present. But that, he perceives, is a world that can never completely be; for "other things" are always "coming in": love, death, hate, noise, fear, the overwhelming teeming joy of living. Significance as a unified myth is shattered, and we are left with the fragments, the glittering pieces of William Carlos Williams' junk-glass that reminds us, perhaps, of other values but serve as pieces of beauty in their own right.

Author City: PASADENA, CA USA

Born in Los Angeles in 1951, Dennis Phiilps is the author of ten books of poetry and one novel, HOPE (2007). Former director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Venice, from 1983-1986, Phillips was the book review editor for Sulfur magazine, as well as poetry editor of the LA Weekly. Phillips is a professor in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Art Center College of Design and teaches regularly in the Graduate Writing program at Otis College of Art and Design.

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