num_pages: 208
description: Philip Schultz winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry has been celebrated for his singular vision of the American immigrant experience and Jewish identity his alternately fierce and tender portrayal of family life and his rich and riotous evocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiastic audiences among readers of Garrison Keillors Writers Almanac  Slate  The New Yorker  and other publications. His willingness to face down the demons of failure and loss in his previous book particularly make him a poet for our times a poet who can write If I have to believe in something / I believe in despair. Yet he remains oddly sometimes late at night / we my happiness and I reminisce / lifelong antagonists / enjoying each others company.The God of Loneliness  a major collection of Schultzs work includes poems from his five books ( Like Wings  Deep Within the Ravine  The Holy Worm of Praise  Living in the Past  Failure ) and fourteen new poems. It is a volume to cherish from one of the least affected of American poets and one of the fiercest (Tony Hoagland) and it will be an essential addition to the history of American poetry.
language: English
title: The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt