{"product_id":"song-of-the-closing-doors-patrick-phillips-9780593321423","title":"Song of the Closing Doors: Poems","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593321421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593321423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.87h x 6.25w x 0.48d","brand":"Patrick Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981918765311,"sku":"9780593321423","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c15e9e6c-4351-4622-92aa-05f2c920ad97.jpg?v=1683258250","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/song-of-the-closing-doors-patrick-phillips-9780593321423","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}