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...
This superb Pulitzer Prize-winning collection gives voice to failure with a wry, deft touch from one of this country's most engaging and uncompromisin...
I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski Head Clerk of Closed Files a department of one work in a forgotten well of ghostly sigh
This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother's diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of...
I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski Head Clerk of Closed Files a department of one work in a forgotten well of ghostly sigh
I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski Head Clerk of Closed Files a department of one work in a forgotten well of ghostly sigh
This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother's diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of...
I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski Head Clerk of Closed Files a department of one work in a forgotten well of ghostly sigh
With humour, irony and celebration, Luxury explores the comfort and sustenance of life, the bittersweet clarity of ageing and the anxiety of existence.
With humour, irony and celebration, Luxury explores the comfort and sustenance of life, the bittersweet clarity of ageing and the anxiety of existence...
