When a writer dies too young, readers are always left with the question "What kind of writer would he have become if he had been granted a full career?" Matthew Phillips wrote these astonishingly good poems in his mid-twenties when he was studying Mideast history and politics and when he was questioning the many tensions of that region. His poems, however, are intellectually far-ranging, from academic settings to the Caves of Lascaux, from San...
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