"Song of the Closing Doors reckons with love, loss, and the space between the two that we call life. It's a deep comfort to rock next to Patrick Phillips in these poignant, sleek poems that travel through grief's tunnels. Clear a space for these blues and warm yourself in their everlasting light." –Tomás Q. Morín, author of
Machete "These poems are so damn good. Few contemporary poets can write an elegy half as well as Phillips. And nobody does it any better." –John Murillo, author of
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry and
Up Jump the Boogie