Field of Wanting

ISBN: 1934289604

Author: Phipps, Wanda

Condition: New

"Wanda Phipps's poetry is so unexpected, it often startles me. In Field of Wanting, she uses devices I've seen before, but never this way. Her voice is as unique as her approach to the poems. And, as always, her honesty is refreshing and uniquely personal. It is, simply, poetry you will find nowhere else. Give it a chance and it will seduce you with its clarity and originality. More a voice singing in the rain than crying in the wilderness, even if the rain is sometimes blood red. - Michael Lally, author of March 18, 2003: A Poem for Peace Field of Wanting is a charged, radically honest book of poems by a writer/performer who intervenes on many fields of desire with zest and panache. She tells it like it is, with wit and a touch of irony. -Anne Waldman, author of Fast Speaking Woman and Outrider: Essays, Poems, Interviews Praise for Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems Wanda Phipps's poems restored the world briefly into the unbearable longing and clarity of youth, and this old grump wept. Very tonic, very lovely, poetry, definitely. - Andrei Codrescu, author of it was today: new poems Reading this book is like getting a wake-up call from the beyond. - Lewis Warsh, author of The Origin of the World A truly beautiful and inspiring work. - Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Her poems keep us awake, supplying us with love, heartaches, the changing seasons, and the sights and sounds that evoke, surround and encapsulate our world(s). - Steve Dalachinsky, Boog City"