Lance Phillips

“Traversed the grass... ” begins Lance Phillips' Imposture Notebook and aptly so.   This book enacts traversal (and   trans versality) in so many ways, it's difficult to keep count.   Add another entry to the heroic, folded tradition of post-autobiography scrolling from Hejinian-Whitman to Howe-Dickinson and back.   At once comprising intensely personal concretions, sweeping, almost hierophantic abstractions, and meditations on the places where such ends of the language spectrum must meet, Phillips' Notebook is a welcome record of many names writ in aether.”  —Aaron McCollough