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ID: 559896

Title: Song of the Closing Doors: Poems

Author: Patrick Phillips

Narrator: Patrick Phillips

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:24:40

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

From 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.

“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.

 

Phillips 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.' 

 

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