Song of the Closing Doors
Poems
$53.13
- Hardcover
80 pages
- Release Date
7 November 2022
Summary
From New York City subway encounters to memories of pickup basketball games on Fourth Street, a love letter to the past, and to all the relationships and memories our homeplaces hold, from the National Book Award finalist.
“I will consider a slice of pizza,” opens Phillips’s poem “Jubilate Civitas.” “For rare among pleasures in Gotham, it is both / exquisite and blessedly cheap.” Thus, as throughout this collection, he celebrates a simple pleasure that “in a time of deceit … is honest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593321423 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593321421 |
| Author: | Patrick Phillips |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 149mm |
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Critics Review
“Song of the Closing Doors reckons with love, loss, and the space between the two that we call life. It’s a deep comfort to rock next to Patrick Phillips in these poignant, sleek poems that travel through grief’s tunnels. Clear a space for these blues and warm yourself in their everlasting light.” –Tomás Q. Morín, author of Machete
“These poems are so damn good. Few contemporary poets can write an elegy half as well as Phillips. And nobody does it any better.” —John Murillo, author of Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry and Up Jump the Boogie
About The Author
Patrick Phillips
Patrick Phillips is the author of three previous books of poems, including Chattahoochee, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Elegy for a Broken Machine, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Blood at the Root- A Racial Cleansing in America, a work of nonfiction, was a New York Times Notable book. Among Phillips’s other honors are Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also translator of When We Leave Each Other- Selected Poems of Henrik Nordbrandt. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Stanford University.
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