Watching the Surface for a Sign

Patrick Phillips, 2009. Patrick Phillips grew up in Forsyth County, Georgia, at the northern edge of the Atlanta metropolitan region. Recorded near the town of Cumming and along Lake Lanier, the poems presented here delve into family, place, conflict, and time's effects. Phillips finds m...

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Main Author: Patrick Phillips
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emory Center for Digital Scholarship 2009-04-01
Series:Southern Spaces
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Online Access:https://southernspaces.org/node/42761
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description Patrick Phillips, 2009. Patrick Phillips grew up in Forsyth County, Georgia, at the northern edge of the Atlanta metropolitan region. Recorded near the town of Cumming and along Lake Lanier, the poems presented here delve into family, place, conflict, and time's effects. Phillips finds mystery and ambivalence in childhood's physical and emotional landscapes, scratches the idyllic patina of family lore, and moves between the surfaces and depths of the natural world.
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Watching the Surface for a Sign
Southern Spaces
Literary Criticism
Poetry
Religion and Spirituality
Urban and Suburban Studies
Whiteness Studies
@Emory
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Poetry
Religion and Spirituality
Urban and Suburban Studies
Whiteness Studies
@Emory
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