Shape of Faith by John Phillips anthology irony and passion…real poise’ –

irony and passion…real poise’ – Michelene Wandor

With this shift of emphasis

only to discover that it has not diminished

But the thing is

This is visionary poetry of a high order

Shape of Faith by John Phillips anthology irony and passion…real poise’ –"Phillips would have us look no further than the poem itself for the primary matter of its own accordant recognition as fact. So that to write is to read ourselves into being alive in forms we have no further proof of than the act of the poem's own declaration." Patrick James Dunagan "Many speak to me in that place that is beyond speech; that transcends the tyranny of words, which is the taste of true poetry. Some carry that resonance that results