«La vita di un artista è per molti versi simile a quella di un dislessico. È nella natura di entrambi rendere il creatore una vittima, facendone un escluso e un disadattato. Se non fosse stato per la mia lotta con la dislessia, dubito che sarei mai diventato scrittore o che avrei mai saputo insegnare agli altri a scrivere». Philip Schultz, poeta, vincitore del premio Pulitzer nel 2008, da bambino non sapeva leggere. Era un pessimo studente, non sempre capiva cosa gli dicessero i suoi inseg...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet examines the lives and sacrifices of his foremothers in his most personal collection yet.Philip Schultz is famous for his empathetic explorations of male shortcomings, primarily those of his late father. Enormous Morning, his incisive new volume, reflects on the sacrifices of women in their roles as mothers, wives, and friends, including those of his own mother, who was forced to support the family in the face of his father’s ...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection of "heartbreaking tenderness" (Gerald Stern).A driven immigrant father; an old poet; Isaac Babel in the author's dreams: Philip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, too—family, beaches, dogs, the pleasures of marriage, the terrors of 9/11, New York City in the 1970s ("when nobody got up before noon, wore a suit/or joined anything")—and a mind struggling with revolutions b...

A vivid, intimate, and inspiring exploration of how to write through persona, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning founder of an influential writing school.Throughout his growth as a writer, acclaimed poet Philip Schultz has battled with the dark voice in his head—the “shitbird,” as his late friend the poet Ralph Dickey termed it—that whispers his insecurities and questions his ability to create. Persona writing, a method of borrowing the voice and temperament of accomp...

Le mie poesie saccheggiano quasi tutto, timori, progetti, congetture e stupori, cercano prove di infedeltà, frammenti di ispirazione. Indifferenti alla sofferenza che descrivono, odiano tutto quello che amo, credono solo nella loro insularità.

Bruno non è un eroe e non cerca la guerra. eppure Bruno dalla guerra non scappa: accetta questa fida compagna che gli cammina accanto, abile a schivarne i colpi: catapultato nel bel mezzo del teatro africano del secondo conflitto mondiale, si sistemerà nelle retrovie, guardando quella scomoda presenza di sbieco, per niente affascinato dai suoi modi ma nemmeno terrorizzato. Bruno non è neppure uno scrittore, tanto che certe volte si chiede che senso abbia scrivere. Eppure alla scrittura ced...

Set in Rochester, New York, in the fifties, this extraordinary book-length sequence traces the year in a boy's life leading up to his bar mitzvah and passage into manhood. There is a lively mixture of ethnic groups here-many of them displaced by the war in Europe-with new hopes and dreams. It is a uniquely American place, where "no matter how far down you started from, you began again from the beginning."As the alternately elegiac and humorous poems conclude, the boy has become a m...

“A success story . . . proof that one can rise above the disease and defy its so-called limitations on the brain.”—Daily BeastDespite 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 ...

Ehi – questa è l’America all’inizio del XXI secolo dove perfino la disperazione sfoggia un catalogo patinato e la democrazia è finalmente diventata pubblica. Un uomo cammina per New York insieme a un gruppo di cani dai nomi altisonanti, Leonardo, Adolf, Napoleon, Gogol, mentre la città viene sconvolta dall’attacco alle Torri gemelle. La voce narrante ripercorre la propria vita e racconta la reazione degli abitanti del suo mondo, i frequentatori abituali del Washington Sq. Park, baby sitter...

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 Keillor's Writer's Almanac, Slate, The New Yorker, and other publications. His willingness to face down the demons of fai...

“Gripping, eloquent, moving, this is a powerful tale about what remains hidden and/or unspeakable in history.” —Elie WieselI, oneHenryk 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...

An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disabilityDespite being a winner of 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 this moving memoir, Schultz tr...