Failure

A driven immigrant father, an old poet, Isaac Babel in the authors dreamsPhilip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, toofamily, 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 nobodys name, thats why

theyre called nobodies.

Failures are unforgettable.

from FAILURE