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.