Failure

Overview

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.

Details

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published

2009

Pages

106

Language

EN

Categories

Literary Collections / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary Collections / Women Authors, Poetry / General, Poetry / American / General, Poetry / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander, Poetry / Caribbean & Latin American, Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Places, Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Family, Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest, Poetry / Subjects & Themes / War, Poetry / Haiku

ISBN-13

9780156031288