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- English
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About this book
A Pulitzer Prizeāwinning 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, tooāfamily, 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")āand 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 haranguingāof god, the reader, and himself. He is one of the least affected of American poets, and one of the fiercest." āTony Hoagland
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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, tooāfamily, 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")āand 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 haranguingāof god, the reader, and himself. He is one of the least affected of American poets, and one of the fiercest." āTony Hoagland
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Itās Sunday Morning in Early November
- Talking to Ourselves
- Specimen
- The Summer People
- The Magic Kingdom
- Louse Point
- The Idea of California
- Kodak Park Athletic Association, 1954
- Grief
- The Absent
- My Dog
- The Garden
- Exquisite with Agony
- Bronze Crowd: After Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Why
- My Wife
- Husband
- Uncle Sigmund
- The Amount of Us
- What I Like and Donāt Like
- Blunt
- Shellac
- The Adventures of 78 Charles Street
- Isaac Babel Visits My Dreams
- Dance Performance
- The Traffic
- The Truth
- The One Truth
- Failure
- The Wandering Wingless
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH