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Song of the Closing Doors : Poems by Patrick Phillips (2022, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100593321421

ISBN-139780593321423

eBay Product ID (ePID)16057237972

Product Key Features

Book TitleSong of the Closing Doors : Poems

Number of Pages72 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicSubjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Subjects & Themes / Family, American / General

GenrePoetry

AuthorPatrick Phillips

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.8 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-045399

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"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

Dewey Decimal811/.6

SynopsisFrom 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 and upright, steadfast and good"; even the busted buttons we press when waiting to cross the street make for elegy in a collection that brings us this poet at his burnished best. Phillips finds his love of a complex, vibrant city extends to his dearest people--he writes for his friend Paul, dying of cancer; for his wife's stormy eyes when they fight; for the baby boy he once woke at night to feed and change. All these and more pass through Phillips's elegant yet colloquial lines, in a book that shines with love and honesty on every page. As he writes, "If you're reading this / we were once friends.", 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 and upright, steadfast and good"; even the busted buttons we press when waiting to cross the street make for elegy in a collection that brings us this poet at his burnished best. Phillips finds his love of a complex, vibrant city extends to his dearest people-he writes for his friend Paul, dying of cancer; for his wife's stormy eyes when they fight; for the baby boy he once woke at night to feed and change. All these and more pass through Phillips's elegant yet colloquial lines, in a book that shines with love and honesty on every page. As he writes, "If you're reading this / we were once friends."

LC Classification NumberPS3616.H465S66 2022