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Failure: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
Contributor(s): Schultz, Philip (Author)

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 ISBN: 0156031280     ISBN-13: 9780156031288
Publisher: Ecco Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2009
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Annotation: 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.


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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - Asian American
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
Dewey: 811.54
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.3" W x 8" L (0.30 lbs) 128 pages
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 05/17/2009 pg. 20
 
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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.


Contributor Bio(s): Schultz, Philip: -

PHILIP SCHULTZ won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his book of poems, Failure. His poetry and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, the Nation, the New Republic, and the Paris Review, among other magazines. In addition, he is the founder and director of the Writers Studio in New York.
 
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