Phillip Barron is an American

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who teaches at

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in Portland, Oregon. His poetry has won the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award for philosophical literature and has been featured in many national journals including ''

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'', and '' Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts''. Barron also has a PhD in

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from the

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. ''What Comes from a Thing'' has been described by reviewers as "a masterpiece of phenomenological description in which poetry is not application or a technique for profundity but instead at the heart of philosophical/poetic evocation" and as "laments of postindustrial despair, isolation, and ecological ruin." Through both poetry and philosophy, Barron challenges traditional conceptions of

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, reframing identity as a distributed phenomenon "that comes through the tension between the artificial and the untouched." He was the founding editor of the poetry journal ''OccuPoetry'', an online literary journal which documented poetry and art of the

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. He is a member of the

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poetry workshop, and he edited the 2012 issue of the ''Squaw Valley Review''. Barron has been cited as an expert on

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and capital punishment for a 2000 article titled "Gender Discrimination in the US Death Penalty System". In 2013, he appeared on a

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segment on gender discrimination in the death penalty.

Awards and honors

*2019 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award *2015 Michael Rubin Book Award *2001-02 Davis-Putter Scholarship

Published Works

Poetry

''What Comes from a Thing'' (Fourteen Hills Press, 2015)

Prose

''The Outspokin' Cyclist'' (Avenida Books, 2011)

References

External links

Phillip Barron: Official Website

Fourteen Hills Press
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