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It's one thing I've always admired in his poetry; that and a heartbreaking tenderness that goes beyond mere pity and that is so present in \u003ci\u003eFailure.\u003c\/i\u003e It's as if he bears our pain. -Gerald Stern, winner of the National Book Award \u003cbr\u003ePhilip Schultz's poems have long since earned their own place in American poetry. His stylistic trademarks are his great emotional directness and his intelligent haranguing--of God, the reader, and himself. He is one of the least affected of American poets, and one of the fiercest. -Tony Hoagland \u003cbr\u003eCall it a poetry of the multiple truths of the all-too-human, the American language profoundly shaped into inclusively, powerfully felt passion. 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