Failure
A Poetry Collection
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 6, 2009
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A wry, compassionate collection holds everyday pleasures beside private and public upheaval.
- Themes
- Failure, Family and marriage, 9/11
- Genres
- American Poetry, Family Poems, Poetry About Death
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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.
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Filled with poems of "heartbreaking tenderness that [go] beyond mere pity" (Gerald Stern), Failure is a collection to savor from this major American poet.
Tender, Unsparing Poems
A wry, compassionate collection holds everyday pleasures beside private and public upheaval.
Come here for
- Poems that make room for family, marriage, beaches, and dogs
- New York in the 1970s, revolutions, and the terrors of 9/11
Expect
- A bittersweet blend of tenderness and fierce directness
- A voice that gives failure wit without losing compassion
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 91% |
|---|---|
| Family Poems | 50% |
| Poetry About Death | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Caribbean & Latin American Collections
- Women Authors Collections
- American Poetry
- Poetry About Death
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- Love Poetry
- Place Poetry
- Family Poems
- Political & Protest Poetry
- Authors
- Philip Schultz
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 6, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Failure · Family and marriage · 9/11
- Reading lane
- Caribbean & Latin American Collections