Reviews of From the Devotions

“This third collection confirms Phillips as one of our masterful contemporary poets. His wrenching, classically inflected lines are the perfect medium for his rigorous interrogations of desire and the complications of physical, moral, and spiritual connection. Phillips shapes a compelling lyric truth from the devastating limits of physical and emotional relations—and from love.” —Publishers Weekly (Editors Pick – Best Books of 1998)

“Spare, unflinching, searching.” —Poetry

“Phillips writes as if he has walked into an immense museum, drawn a great stale breath, and exhaled rich poetry back into the room. The arc of his vision is deep and distant and alive, and it imbues his poems with experience and wisdom.” —Pleiades