Shape of Faith by John Phillips anthology With this shift of emphasis

With this shift of emphasis

Yet these are not depressing poems

self and identity

This is visionary poetry of a high order

and author Joelle Taylor

Shape of Faith by John Phillips anthology With this shift of emphasis"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