A Mirage of Suspended Gardens

Whether reflecting on our diminished sense of wonder for all life's most simple pleasures or shouting to the hilltops: "Let us be prodigal in praise, recklessly extravagant/ In sun and shadow celebration" in this collection of poems by J.R. Phillips we are given multiple samplings of the joys and exultations gleaned from a sensitive mind and eyes opened to the physical majesty of nature. There is an obvious adherence to the traditional precepts of Classical Romanticism, a fondness for meter...