Since the 1970s, Robert Phillips has built a reputation as one of the outstanding American poets of his generation. Now, in his fifth full collection of verse, that reputation is both confirmed and consolidated, These are thoughtful, substantive poems that may make the reader smile and reflect. There are autobiographical poems about the poet's childhood on Delaware's Eastern Shore, elegies for the recent dead in American arts, extended metaphors on suburban existence, and a long section of poems in which the poet courts, wins, then loses the Muse. Both in voice and performance, "Breakdown Lane" is a consistent and engaging volume.
- ISBN10 0801848547
- ISBN13 9780801848544
- Publish Date 1 May 1994
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 20 August 1999
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 88
- Language English