Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten

by Stephen Collis

Almost Islands is a memoir of Collis's friendship with and regular visits to legendary poet Phyllis Webb--now in her nineties and long enveloped in the silence which followed her last published book in 1990--as well as an extended meditation on literary ambition and failure, poetry and politics, choice and chance, place, colonization, and climate change--the struggle that is writing, and the end of writing. "I go to see her because she is poetry's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772012076
• ISBN13: 9781772012071
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"