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The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Schultz, Philip
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- Title The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems
- Author Schultz, Philip
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
- Date 2010
- Bookseller's Inventory # 004460
- ISBN 9780547249650 / 0547249659
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.42 x 0.68 in (23.50 x 16.31 x 1.73 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009041895
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Summary
Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been celebrated for his singular vision of the American immigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierce and tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotous evocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiastic audiences among readers of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, Slate, The New Yorker, and other publications. His willingness to face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous book particularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write “If I have to believe in something / I believe in despair.” Yet he remains oddly undaunted: “sometimes, late at night / we, my happiness and I, reminisce / lifelong antagonists / enjoying each other’s company.”
The God of Loneliness, a major collection of Schultz’s work, includes poems from his five books (Like Wings, Deep Within the Ravine, The Holy Worm of Praise, Living in the Past, Failure) and fourteen new poems. It is a volume to cherish, from “one of the least affected of American poets, and one of the fiercest” (Tony Hoagland), and it will be an essential addition to the history of American poetry.