Riding Out the Dumb Silence

If you're looking for a poetry and short story collection where trains hit cars, garbage men find heads in trash cans, women throw groceries at men, gurus sheer their flocks, and little girls want to grow up to become dinner plates, this is the book for you.

If you aren't looking for those things, you really should be.

Phillips blends the all-too-real with the fantastic to deliver one of the weirdest, strongest collections you'll read this, or any year.