Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry/Anarchy/Abstraction

by Stephen Collins and Stephen Collis

Phyllis Webb is a poet around whom archetypes tend to cluster: the reclusive artist; the distraught, borderline suicidal Sapphic woman poet. While on the surface she seems someone supremely disinterested in the public sphere, argues Stephen Collis in this brilliant and revealing new celebration of her work, Webb is no domestic, as a creator or a critic. Her work sweeps into the wilds of politics, philosophy, economics and her slim books speak volumes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889225591
• ISBN13: 9780889225596
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 8.5"