{"product_id":"song-of-the-closing-doors-poems-isbn-9780593321423","title":"Song of the Closing Doors: Poems","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 ","brand":"Penguin Random House","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-poems-isbn-9780593321423","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}