<div><div><div><div>A driven immigrant father, an old poet, Isaac Babel in the author&#8217;s dreams&#8212;Philip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, too&#8212;family, beaches, dogs, the pleasures of marriage, New York City in the 1970s, "when nobody got up before noon, wore a suit/or joined anything"&#8212;and a mind struggling with revolutions both interior and exterior. Failure is a superb new collection from one of America&#8217;s great poets. <br><br>One called him a nobody.<br><br>No, I said, he was a failure.<br><br>You can&#8217;t remember<br><br>a nobody&#8217;s name, that&#8217;s why<br><br>they&#8217;re called nobodies. <br><br>Failures are unforgettable. <br><br>&#8212;from "FAILURE"<br><br></div></div></div></div> [Edit review] [Delete review]