Failure

Philip Schultz · 2007 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Poems about a failed father, a failed career and the American appetite for success turn failure into the book's single subject. The speaker is a middle-aged man still measuring himself against a family of immigrants who did not prosper. A lyric collection that shared the Pulitzer Prize in poetry with a book by Robert Hass in the same cycle.

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