Fiction. Dennis Phillips, a noted poet, has recently turned his talents to fiction with the publication of HOPE. This, his first novel, is a work of two intertwining stories: one of a monk lured to an isolated island, the other of a contemporary man who first imagines himself imprisoned on an unknown island and later finds himself in a real island paradise, where "hope" is restored. Both stories represent kinds of imprisonment and torture, the first based on historical events, the second on the psychological confusion of the character. What Phillips ultimately reveals is that beyond the horrors and everyday despair of living there is always the possibility of redemption, of hope and the salve of love in human life.

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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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