Phillip A Foss

Public Land Policy: Proceedings

Politics and Ecology

The Excesses the Caprices

Chromatic Defacement

Somata: Poetry

Imperfect Poverty

Phillip O. Foss

Phillip Oliver Foss, (May 18, 1916 - October 14, 2001) an American political scientist, was born in Maxbass, North Dakota to Oliver Foss and Petra Elton Foss

Politics and Grass; the Administration of Grazing on the Public Domain

From DJ flap - The public domain was, and is, the landed estate of the American people. It once included most of the United States. Over the years much of this land was transferred to private owners through various grants, sales, and homestead acts. These federal land-disposal polices were based pr...

Politics and Grass: The Administration of Grazing on the Public Domain

Imperfect Poverty

Poetry. Phillip Foss' sixth full-length book of poetry is a stark, stalking meditation on time, language, and landscape in which all three create "a harmonics / of disharmony" composing, decomposing, and recomposing "the journey of our unraveling." Jack Spicer contends that the poems in a book shoul...

The Valley of Cranes

Poetry. His seventh full-length volume of poetry, Phillip Foss's THE VALLEY OF CRANES excavates a wordscape--at once archaic and prophetic, imagined and lived--originating in the poet's homeground of New Mexico's Chaco Canyon. Following on his two previous books from Singing Horse Press--THE IDEATIO...

The Ideation

Poetry. "You are in the quadrant of beasts." So opens the poetic terrain Phillip Foss excavates in The Ideation, a book rich in the rituals of the instant in which past, present, and future conspire "to render a cartography of the universe." And it's a particularly feral universe these poems map, on...

The Composition of Glass (Lost Roads)

Poetry. "In his remarkable magazine 'Tyuonyi,' Phillip Foss is realizing a vital new synthesis of seemingly disparate tendencies in North American poetry. Foss's collection of poems, THE COMPOSITION OF GLASS, achieves something of the same effect. Foss's poems, especially the long sequence called 'V...

The World's Description: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. Phillip Foss's THE WORLD'S DESCRIPTION: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS is a carefully culled selection from an astonishing body of work that reaches back over thirty years. Rather than present a chronological retrospective, Foss creates an original work by bringing poems together that speak with eac...

Politics and ecology

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