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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 financial ruin. The collection ends with a long poem, ""Something and Nothing,"" that pays homage to the Arshile Gorky painting The Artist and His Mother. But the poems are also political in scope. Schultz weaves these personal stories into the broader tapestry of our political moment, reflecting on the fragility of democracy, including the January 6 insurrection, and those who are willing to sacrifice themselves to preserve it. Intimate, vulnerable, and inviting, Enormous Morning cements Schultz as our greatest chronicler of compassion.

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Enormous Morning by Philip Schultz is enormous in its heart and breadth and depth of life experiences. . . . These poems ask the little questions but always end with the biggest questions. These are smart, wise, and coy poems to hear and overhear.--Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World Enormous Morning is a riveting encounter with the necessities of life--what we love, recoil from, praise, and bless--and a probing of vivid truths about the daily trials of our time on Earth. Philip Schultz finds joy and illumination amid the quotidian and surprises in the darkness. . . . Ever more in these times, Schultz's poems are essential.--Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Ozone Journal Philip Schultz mines public and private histories, grieving the loss of life and praising the grace by which much and many are permitted to survive. With expansive lyric poems that reckon with his own forbears' experience of 'ungodly wars and holocaust obliterations, ' revisit the cataclysm of the Armenian genocide, and bear witness to the deceptions and annihilations of our current time, Enormous Morning makes a formidable case for compassion and the world-redeeming power of love.--Tracy K. Smith, author of Fear Less

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Philip Schultz is the author of nine poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Failure. The founder and director of The Writers Studio, he has been teaching creative writing since 1971. He lives in East Hampton, New York.

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