Description
Poetry. His seventh full-length volume of poetry, Phillip Foss's THE VALLEY OF CRANES excavates a wordscape—at once archaic and prophetic, imagined and lived—originating in the poet's homeground of New Mexico's Chaco Canyon. Following on his two previous books from Singing Horse Press—THE IDEATION (2004) and IMPERFECT POVERTY (2006)—Foss's new suite of poems takes us "where the chatter / of thought becomes chromatic / becomes visual dissonance." These poems are a synaesthetic feast for eye, ear, and mind.
"A meditational tone steeped in quirk and particularity marks THE VALLEY OF CRANES. Anything could be something else in this book that abounds in unpredictable declaration. Sensuous and astringent both, Phillip Foss's poems offer pause, gleam, glint, edification—repeated yield of angular prospect and purchase."—Nathaniel Mackey
Author Bio
Phillip Foss is the author of fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently STUDY IN TRANSHUMANCE, THE VALLEY OF CRANES, and THE WORLD'S DESCRIPTION, from Singing Horse Press. Additionally, he has received the Fund for Poetry Award and two Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was founding director of the Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and editor of Tyuonyi magazine. He lives with his wife, Joyce, in northern New Mexico.
Author City: San Juan Pueblo, NM USA