Poetry. NAVIGATION is a 25-year retrospective look at the work of Dennis Phillips, from his first book in 1985, The Hero Is Nothing, to the most recent fine-print edition, Study for the Possibility of Hope (2010). Arguably one of the most overlooked of poetic innovators working in California over the last thirty years, Phillips' is a profound and moving voice, tirelessly testing the limits of poetic language and its place in the world. About his work, Paul Vangelisti has written: "Dennis Phillips, a poet's poet, a true, in Heidigger's words, 'shepard of Being.'"

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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