{"product_id":"song-of-the-closing-doors-poems","title":"Song of the Closing Doors: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSong of the Closing Doors: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePatrick Phillips\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593321423\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhillips 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. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Song of the Closing Doors: Poems | Patrick Phillips | Hardcover | 9780593321423 | New | Poetry 1446985","offer_id":50564720165122,"sku":"1446985","price":37.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/317tTFE6DSL.jpg?v=1790755736","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/song-of-the-closing-doors-poems","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}