| Management number | 231701185 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $7.66 | Model Number | 231701185 | ||
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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." Read more
| ISBN10 | 0593321421 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0593321423 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Knopf |
| Dimensions | 5.87 x 0.2 x 8.39 inches |
| Item Weight | 8.4 ounces |
| Print length | 72 pages |
| Publication date | August 23, 2022 |
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