Song of the Closing Doors: Poems

by Patrick Phillips

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593321421
• ISBN13: 9780593321423
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"