Boy

This follow-up to Patrick Phillips's award-winning debut navigates the course of the male experience, and particularly young fatherhood. Like Virgil's Aeneas, the book's central figure is in the middle time of life, a grown man with an aging father on his shoulders and a young son at his hand. Phillips's plainspoken and moving lyrics add an important voice to the poetry of home as they struggle to reconcile fatherhood and boyhood, present and past, and the ache of loving what must be lost.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 03/15/2008
ISBN: 9780820331195
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.39w x 0.22d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/25/2008 pg. 51