Not Even Laughter

Not Even Laughter is one of the most assured first collections I have read in a long time. The tightly controlled lines, rich with detail, surprise in their unfolding, transforming the commonplace into something otherworldly.-Gerard Beirne. "Phillip Crymble is a rueful and reluctant lyricist, a poet who assures us 'It doesn't mean that much to me. It doesn't.' And yet the poems' economy of utterance and eloquent plainness make clear that it does."ichard Tillinghast.