Water: Dennis Phillips
Dennis Phillips (b. 1951) is a widely anthologized Los Angeles poet whose work has been described as “experimental”, “neo-surrealistic” with a “sense of language discontinuity” inspired by modernist pursuit of discovery. In the poem Water, published below, he writes: “Like music there’s no way to capture water/in the markings of language.” And yet it is through these playful though intricate attempts to discern ‘a cartography’ of water by writing and reading its fluidity, its
