{"product_id":"song-of-the-closing-doors-poems-hardcover","title":"Song of the Closing Doors: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhillips 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePATRICK PHILLIPS is the author of three previous books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eChattahoochee\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and \u003ci\u003eElegy for a Broken Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. \u003ci\u003eBlood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America\u003c\/i\u003e, a work of nonfiction, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWhen We Leave Each Other: Selected Poems of Henrik Nordbrandt\u003c\/i\u003e. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.87 x 6.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766453141792,"sku":"9780593321423","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/325a6529cd0ac1fd4cca7ad71de08f9e.webp?v=1780292880","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/song-of-the-closing-doors-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}