| Edition |
First Mariner Books edition. |
| Description |
106 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"This superb Pulitzer Prize-winning collection gives voice to failure with a wry, deft touch from one of this country's most engaging and uncompromising poets. In "Failure, "Philip Schultz evokes the pleasures of family, marriage, beaches, and dogs; New York City in the 1970s; revolutions both interior and exterior; and the terrors of 9/11 with a compassion that demonstrates he is a master of the bittersweet and fierce, the wondrous and direct, and the brilliantly provocative. Filled with poems of "heartbreaking tenderness that go beyond mere pity" (Gerald Stern), "Failure "is a collection to savor from this major American poet." -- from booksamillion.com. |
| Contents |
It's 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 don't 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. |
| Subject(S) |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
9780156031288 (paperback) |
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0156031280 (paperback) |
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9780151015269 |
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0151015260 |
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