Failure

A driven immigrant father, an old poet, Isaac Babel in the authors dreams Philip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, too family, 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 remember a nobody's name, that's why they're called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable. from "FAILURE"