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Patrick Phillips

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Patrick Phillips

Profile

Gender
Male
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Georgia (grew up) → San Francisco (current residence)

Career

Occupations
Poet, Writer, Professor
Active Years
2000-
Affiliations
Stanford University, Drew University, University of Copenhagen (Fulbright)

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship
2010
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: 受賞
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Poetry)
2009
Organization: National Endowment for the Arts
Result: 受賞
Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation
2008
Category: 翻訳
Organization: American-Scandinavian Foundation
Result: 受賞
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
2005
Work: Chattahoochee
Organization: Kate Tufts Foundation / award administrators
Result: 受賞
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
2004
Organization: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Result: 受賞
Discovery / The Nation Award
2003
Organization: 92nd Street Y, Unterberg Poetry Center
Result: 受賞
Sjoberg Translation Prize (American-Scandinavian Foundation)
2001
Work: Translations of Henrik Nordbrandt
Category: 翻訳
Organization: American-Scandinavian Foundation
Result: 受賞
Fulbright Fellowship (Literary Translation)
2000
Category: 翻訳
Organization: Fulbright Program
Result: 受賞
National Book Award (Poetry) — Finalist
2015
Work: Elegy for a Broken Machine
Category: 詩
Organization: National Book Foundation
Result: ファイナリスト

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Chattahoochee

2004 Poetry

A debut poetry collection rooted in the American South (Georgia), treating personal memory and regional landscape.

memorySouthern landscapefamily

Boy

2008 Poetry

A collection of poems exploring coming-of-age and personal experience, marked by an introspective voice.

coming-of-ageself-exploration

Elegy for a Broken Machine

2015 Poetry

A 2015 poetry collection that addresses themes of loss related to machines and technology and the fractures between individual and society; finalist for the National Book Award (Poetry).

machineslossalienation from society

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

2016 Non-fiction / History

A nonfiction investigation into racial violence and expulsions in Georgia; named a best book of the year by The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and Smithsonian magazine.

racial violencehistorical memorythe American South

Bibliography

  • Chattahoochee (2004)
  • Boy (2008)
  • Elegy for a Broken Machine (2015)
  • Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (2016)

Translations by Author

  • Translations of poems by Henrik Nordbrandt

Style & Themes

Literary Style
direct, emotionally resonant dictionnarrative poetry that incorporates historical and social issues
Recurring Motifs
Southern landscape and memorymachines and breakdownrace and history

Legacy

A writer recognized both in contemporary American poetry and in public-facing nonfiction. In poetry he excavates personal and regional memory; in nonfiction he has documented and brought wider attention to racial violence in the American South.

In Popular Culture

  • Featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac
  • Blood at the Root named a best book of the year by major outlets

Trivia

  • Elegy for a Broken Machine was a 2015 National Book Award (Poetry) finalist.
  • Blood at the Root was named a best book of the year by multiple major outlets.
  • Has been a Fulbright fellow in Copenhagen and has received awards for translation.