In 17 Meditations on Time Dennis Phillips tries to capture the evanescent, to grasp the ungraspable, wrestling with that oldest and most unmappable of mysteries, time. In 2019 Talisman House brought out Mappa Mundi, Phillips’ 17th volume of poetry. With Mappa Mundi the book setting a predicate for “Mappa Mundi” the project, Phillips has written a second volume, The Cartographer’s Lament. Continuing the exploration of themes and variations, the Lament consists of ten sections, of which “17 Meditations on Time” is the second section.
In 17 Meditations on Time Dennis Phillips tries to capture the evanescent, to grasp the ungraspable, wrestling with that oldest and most unmappable of mysteries, time. In 2019 Talisman House brought out Mappa Mundi, Phillips’ 17th volume of poetry. With Mappa Mundi the book setting a predicate for “Mappa Mundi” the project, Phillips has written a second volume, The Cartographer’s Lament. Continuing the exploration of themes and variations, the Lament consists of ten sections, of which “17 Meditations on Time” is the second section.
Dennis Phillips (born 1951) is a U.S. poet & novelist. He co-edited the poetry-section of the New Review of Literature, was a founding editor of Littoral Books, the first Book Review Editor of the magazine Sulfur and the L.A. Weekly's first poetry-editor, as well as a director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. Phillips attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Clayton Eshleman. He then attended graduate school at New York University. He is a professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, the city where he lives with his wife, artist Courtney Gregg, and their daughter.
