Failure
eBook - ePub

Failure

Poems

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Failure

Poems

About this book

A Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection of "heartbreaking tenderness" (Gerald Stern).
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A driven immigrant father; an old poet; Isaac Babel in the author's dreams: Philip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, too—family, beaches, dogs, the pleasures of marriage, the terrors of 9/11, New York City in the 1970s ("when nobody got up before noon, wore a suit/or joined anything")—and a mind struggling with revolutions both interior and exterior. Failure is a superb collection, "full of slashing language, good rhythms [and] surprises" (Norman Mailer).
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"Philip Schultz's poems have long since earned their own place in American poetry. His stylistic trademarks are his great emotional directness and his intelligent haranguing—of god, the reader, and himself. He is one of the least affected of American poets, and one of the fiercest." —Tony Hoagland

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. It’s Sunday Morning in Early November
  7. Talking to Ourselves
  8. Specimen
  9. The Summer People
  10. The Magic Kingdom
  11. Louse Point
  12. The Idea of California
  13. Kodak Park Athletic Association, 1954
  14. Grief
  15. The Absent
  16. My Dog
  17. The Garden
  18. Exquisite with Agony
  19. Bronze Crowd: After Magdalena Abakanowicz
  20. Why
  21. My Wife
  22. Husband
  23. Uncle Sigmund
  24. The Amount of Us
  25. What I Like and Don’t Like
  26. Blunt
  27. Shellac
  28. The Adventures of 78 Charles Street
  29. Isaac Babel Visits My Dreams
  30. Dance Performance
  31. The Traffic
  32. The Truth
  33. The One Truth
  34. Failure
  35. The Wandering Wingless
  36. Acknowledgments
  37. About the Author
  38. Connect with HMH