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eBook, 2009
Current format, eBook, 2009, 1st Mariner Books ed., Available.
eBook, 2009
Current format, eBook, 2009, 1st Mariner Books ed., Available. Offered in 0 more formats
A Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection of "heartbreaking tenderness" (Gerald Stern).
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).
"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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