{"product_id":"song-of-the-closing-doors-isbn-9780593321423","title":"Song of the Closing Doors","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003e\"Song of the Closing Doors\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMachete\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eKontemporary Amerikan Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUp Jump the Boogie\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303487426789,"sku":"NP9780593321423","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593321423.jpg?v=1767736953","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/song-of-the-closing-doors-isbn-9780593321423","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}