Failure

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 <em>Failure </em>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) <em>Failure </em>is a collection to savor from this major American poet. <p></p>