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THE INFLUENCE OF PAINTINGS HUNG IN BEDROOMS Phyllis Wat 77 pages, paperback Book and Cover Design by Noam Scheindlin ISBN: 978-0-935992-36-6 Copyright © 2007 $14.00 "Like any communicating vessel, Phyllis Wat condenses all she learns into poems. Like a Zen master more interested in play than lessons, Wat's poems are bending reeds: in seeking knowledge, she's unlearning at the same time and finding form for what resonates. Witty and filled with delightful aphorisms and maxims, like the best satire, it's each poem's crazy wisdom that ultimately comes through. Use this book as a field guide for getting lost--right into the poem." Kristin Prevallet "Precise and prescient, Phyllis Wat etches the exigencies of everyday in luminous and deep-seeing language. She enfolds the mysterious within simplicity, and the structure of her poems are such that once you finish, so you begin again. 'Strange lands are for understanding,' and Wat comprehends, compels, gestures for us to join her in her travels both inside and outside. This is a treasure of a journey of a book." Marcella Durand A new book of poems by the author of The Fish Soup Bowl Expedition (2000) and the editor and publisher of Strawgate Books. Wat is a founding coeditor of 6x Magazine and the recipient of two grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She was contributing editor to The World, the literary magazine of The Poetry Project in New York, from 1992-1993, and is presently a coeditor of a new on-line magazine Press 1. She lives in Philadelphia and New York. RETURN TO BOOK LIST |
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