Product Description: “Gripping, eloquent, moving, this is a powerful tale about what remains hidden and/or unspeakable in history.” ―Elie WieselI, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski, Head Clerk of Closed Files, a department of one, work… in a forgotten well of ghostly sighsThis astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries...read more

An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disability. Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the "dummy class" in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when his oldest son was diagnosed with dyslexia, did Schultz realize that he suffered from the same condition. In his moving memoir, Schultz traces his difficult childhood and his new understanding of his early years. In doing so, he shows how a boy who did not learn to read until he was eleven went on to become a prize-winning poet by sheer force of determination. His balancing act―life as a member of a family with not one but two dyslexics, countered by his intellectual and creative successes as a writer―reveals an inspiring story of the strengths of the human mind.

Product 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...read more

Product Description: This superb Pulitzer Prize–winning collection gives voice to failure with a wry, deft touch from one of this country’s most engaging and uncompromising poets. In Failure, Philip Schultz evokes the pleasures of family,marriage, beaches, and dogs; New York City in the 1970s; revolutions both interior and exterior; and the terrors of 9/11 with a compassion that demonstrates he is a master of the bittersweet and fierce, the wondrous and direct, and the brilliantly provocative...read more

A collection of beautiful, sometimes humorous elegies retraces the author's life from his bar mitzvah through his displacement in Europe after the war through his various cycles of manhood--marriage, fatherhood, and family life.

An impeccable collection of cheerful and wise poems centers around the joys and wonders of friendship and the forgotten aspects of our world, and celebrates love, whether it be sexual, familial, or romantic, in all its glory and complexity. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Poems consider childhood, longings, memory, happiness, ambition, loneliness, aging, the past, disappointment, and fate