Cur Aliquid Vidi (NEW SERIES

by Lance Phillips

Poetry. "'Why did I have to see something' translates the title to Lance Phillips' extraordinary second collection, and if the question is Ovid's, it also remains any poet's who follows the exilic logic of language. Revisioning myth, CUR ALIQUID VIDI mines the eros in language and discovers how it must, ultimately, reach agape. What is the purpose of the exile's word to the community which excludes him. To be instructed by what is absent. Read and be instructed" - Claudia Keelan.

Genres: Poetry

77 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Lance Phillips attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the creator and facilitator of the interview blog Here Comes Everybody.

He has a book of experimental autobiography, Imposture Notebook, forthcoming from Blaze Vox [books] in spring 2008 and his third book of poetry, These indicium tales, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2009.

Reviews

[Joe Sacksteder · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sexy but incomprehensible.

[Leonard · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'll give him an OK for effort, but I really didn't know what he was writing about,...or why. However anything published by Ahsahta Press is worth checking out.