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Failure : Poems by Schultz, Philip is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Failure : Poems about?
A driven immigrant father, an old poet, Isaac Babel in the authors dreamsPhilip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, toofamily, beaches, dogs, the pleasures of marriage, New York City in the 1970s, "when nobody got up before noon, wore a suit/or joined anything"and a mind struggling with revolutions both interior and exterior. Failure is a superb new collection from one of Americas great poets. One called him a nobody.No, I said, he was a failure.You cant remembera nobodys name, thats whytheyre called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable. from "FAILURE"
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Schultz, Philip
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780156031288
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (307 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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