Spinach Days

by Robert S. Phillips

Book Overview

"Three cheers for Robert Phillips. We need more poets like him."--Robert Richman, New York Times

Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected "transition generation"--poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Spinach Days is his sixth full-length collection, following his critically acclaimed Breakdown Lane (Johns Hopkins, 1994), named a Notable Book of the Year by the New...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801864518
• ISBN13: 9780801864513
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Spinach Days a great read!

What a great collection! Wonderful reading just one or two at a time. Poems are pithy and poignant.

great collection

phillips has put together a great collection of poems, full of humor and the sense of craft of the formalist poets. it's full of so many great poems i can't begin to list them all.

Pitcher of Martinis, garnished with spinach

Ask for the recipe of these poems. Take the plain-spoken disclosure of the Confessionalists, pour into the informed line-sense of the Formalists, season with wit, secret love of the Metaphysical poets, & serve. Phillips doesn't ask that you do extensive background checks on his references, though he does allow himself familiarities with Miss Moore of the tricorner hat, icons of New York City's literary past, & other remarks which may challenge some reader's sense of easy access. Not to fear. If this is the first book you read that introduces you to the world of high literary comradery, you couldn't ask for a nicer host.