Wanda Phipps Words & Music

Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire (BlazeVOX [books])
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REVIEWS OF
FIELD OF WANTING: POEMS OF DESIRE

Big Bridge

Doug Holder's Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

Lally's Alley

The Brooklyn Rail

Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press)
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REVIEWS OF
WAKE-UP CALLS: 66 MORNING POEMS

Galatea Resurrects

small spiral notebook

The Evergreen Review

Zither Mood CD-Rom (Faux Press)
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Your Last Illusion or Break-Up Sonnets (Situations Press)
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Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets (St. Martin's Press)
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She is also the co-author of:

Member Since:

June 23, 2007

Members:

The wonderful group of collaborators and accompanists over the years: Stephen B. Antonakos co-composer and guitarist (of Love Camp 7 and Dirty Water Dogs), Gary Lucas on guitar (of Gods and Monsters and formerly of Captain Beefheart), Rebecca Moore on various toy instruments (of Prevention of Blindness and Harvey Mars), Nao on guitar (of Nao's Superfortress), Bradford Reed on pencillina (from The Firefishers and Blue Man Group), Hiroshi Noguchi on guitar, Steve Wishnia on bass (formerly of False Prophets), Marc Sloan on bass and samples (of Gawk and formerly of False Prophets), Andrew Williams on Trombone, Samara on violin, Joe Trump on percussion, Drew Gardner on Drums, Tofu on Percussion, Prageeta Sharma on Drums, Eres on slide guitar, Andrea Urist on drums, Steve Metzgar on drums, Jonathan Moran on bass, Mike Doughty on samples, Christian X. Hunter on guitar, Joel Schlemowitz co-composer and guitarist, Adam Kendall on laptop and others.

Influences:

Amanda Palmer, Ingrid Michaelson, Jeff Buckley, Laurie Anderson, Rebecca Moore, Sweet Honey in the Rock, PJ Harvey, Barbez, The Dresden Dolls, Jill Scott, Leonard Cohen, Suzanne Vega, Homer Erotic, Zap Mama, Elliott Sharp, Mike Doughty, Solomon Burke, Gwen Stefani (No Doubt), Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), Julianna Nash (Talking to Animals), Eszter Balint, Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln, Anne Waldman, Jayne Cortez, Ntozake Shange, Edwidge Danticat, Eduardo Galeano, Eckhart Tolle, the Dalai Lama, Bernadette Mayer, Lynne Tillman, Julio Cortazar, Alice Notley, Michael Lally, Edwidge Danticat, Eduardo Galeano and more.

Sounds Like:

“Wanda Phipps and band, a multi-instrument, blues, poetry, and rock ensemble - picture the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, and Leadbelly thrown into a blender.” – David Kirschenbaum, Editor & publisher of Boog City


MORE ABOUT WANDA'S POETRY & MUSIC

For over a decade Wanda Phipps has been mining the possibilities of music and poetry and her lucid experiments–both on CD and in performance–are never less than totally liberating.

– Lewis Warsh, author of The Origin of the World


Uncompromising and relentless, poetry you can dance to. Wanda Phipps takes the experiment to heart and the heart always survives. A sublime poetry of emotion and wit. She never misses a beat.

–Michael Rothenberg, poet, editor of several Penguin Poets Series books and the internet arts journal Big Bridge



WHAT THEY HAVE SAID ABOUT WANDA'S RECENTLY RELEASED BOOK
FIELD OF WANTING:
POEMS OF DESIRE

Wanda Phipps’s poetry is so unexpected, it often startles me. In Field of Wanting, she uses devices I’ve seen before, but never this way. Her voice is as unique as her approach to the poems. And, as always, her honesty is refreshing and uniquely personal. It is, simply, poetry you will find nowhere else. Give it a chance and it will seduce you with its clarity and originality. More a voice singing in the rain than crying in the wilderness, even if the rain is sometimes blood red.

– Michael Lally, author of March 18, 2003: A Poem for Peace


Field of Wanting is a charged, radically honest book of poems by a writer/performer who intervenes on many fields of desire with zest and panache. She tells it like it is, with wit and a touch of irony.

–Anne Waldman, author of Fast Speaking Woman and Outrider: Essays, Poems, Interviews



PRAISE FOR WANDA'S BOOK
WAKE-UP CALLS:
66 MORNING POEMS

Wanda Phipps’s poems restored the world briefly into the unbearable longing and clarity of youth, and this old grump wept. Very tonic, very lovely, poetry, definitely.

– Andrei Codrescu, author of it was today: new poems


Reading this book is like getting a wake-up call from the beyond.

– Lewis Warsh, author of The Origin of the World


A truly beautiful and inspiring work.

– Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk


Her poems keep us awake, supplying us with love, heartaches, the changing seasons, and the sights and sounds that evoke, surround and encapsulate our world(s).

– Steve Dalachinsky, Boog City


The refreshing feel about this collection comes from Phipps, fresh out of sleep, suddenly conscious, writing suddenly and honestly. There is no hesitation. This is a woman going forward into day through her art.

– Jennifer Leblanc, Small Spiral Notebook

Record Label:

Unsigned