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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/01/2009
ISBN: 9780156031288
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.40d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 05/17/2009 pg. 20