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Schultz, Philip was born on January 6, 1945 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Samuel Benjamin and Lillian Bedina Schultz.
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The Holy Worm of Praise: Poems
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the holy worm of our tongues singing praise our faces shining like cities our being one among many our climbing Jacob's ladder to rock in the arms of angels our walking here and there on the earth and looking around Philip Schultz's work has always evoked "a brilliant cavalcade of people and images that make you want to laugh and cry at the same time" (Yehuda Amichai), but the poems in this new collection-his first in fifteen years--register a movement from desire, pain, and loss to sympathy, understanding, and love. In these meditations on friendship and the forgotten of our world, these elegies for the displaced and cherished dead, there is something new and wonderful-praise. From the seemingly trivial hums and beeps of an answering machine to the painful experience of being touched by Alzheimer's, these extraordinary poems suffuse human experience with the wonder, laughter, and luminosity of life. With an intensity akin to prayer, they celebrate love--be it sexual, familial, romantic, or otherwise--in all its wonder and complexity, singing praise for what is most vulnerable, beautiful, and innocent in ourselves.
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Deep within the Ravine: Poems
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Like Wings (The Penguin poets)
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Like Wings
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The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems by Schultz, Philip (April 8, 2010) Hardcover
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The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems
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Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been celebrated for his singular vision of the American immigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierce and tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotous evocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiastic audiences among readers of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, Slate, The New Yorker, and other publications. His willingness to face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous book particularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write “If I have to believe in something / I believe in despair.” Yet he remains oddly undaunted: “sometimes, late at night / we, my happiness and I, reminisce / lifelong antagonists / enjoying each other’s company.” The God of Loneliness, a major collection of Schultz’s work, includes poems from his five books (Like Wings, Deep Within the Ravine, The Holy Worm of Praise, Living in the Past, Failure) and fourteen new poems. It is a volume to cherish, from “one of the least affected of American poets, and one of the fiercest” (Tony Hoagland), and it will be an essential addition to the history of American poetry.
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Philip Schultz
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Philip Schultz, American Poet, novelist, educator. New York State Council for the Arts fellow, 1976, 80; National Endowment Artsfellow, 1980-1981; Fulbright grantee, 1983; New York Foundation for Arts fellow, 1985. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Poetry Society American (governing board 1984-1988), Modern Poetry Association, Authors Guild Inc.
Education
Student, University Louisville, 1963-1965; student, San Francisco State University, 1965-1967; Bachelor in English Lit, U. Iowa, 1968; Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, U. Iowa, 1971.
Career
His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Slate, Poetry magazine, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, and Five Points, among others, and he is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Poetry to Israel and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. Schultz is also the author of a memoir, My Dyslexia, published by West.W. Norton in 2011, and a new book of poetry, The Wherewithal (West West Norton), published in February 2014. Schultz founded The Writers Studio in 1987 after teaching at New York University for 10 years, where he founded and directed their graduate writing program from 1984 to 1988.
The Writers Studio utilizes a method that emphasizes technique and emotional connection, making writers aware of the distinction between the actual writer and a narrative persona.
Today it features an online program, workshops in New York City, San Francisco, Tucson, and Amsterdam, as well as a celebrated reading series in New York City.
Achievements
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The Holy Worm of Praise: Poems
( the holy worm of our tongues singing praise our faces s...)
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The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems
( Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for p...)
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Deep within the Ravine: Poems
(Book by Schultz, Philip)
- My Guardian Angel Stein
- Like Wings (The Penguin poets)
- Like Wings
- Like Wings
- The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems by Schultz, Philip (April 8, 2010) Hardcover
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The Holy Worm of Praise: Poems
Membership
Volunteer teacher poetry to troubled children Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, 1986-1987, Coalition for Homeless. Member Pen American Center (events committee, membership committee 1979-1981), Poetry Society of America (board governors), Academy American Poets (Lamont award), Poets House.
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Married Monica Banks, January 28, 1995. Childre: Elias, August.
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1971
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1971 - 1972
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1973 - 1974
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1973 - 1974
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1973 - 1975
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Fellowship in poetry New York State Council for Arts, 1976, 80, National Endowment for Arts, 1981-1982, New York Foundation for Arts, 1985. Fulbright fellow to Israel Hebrew University, 1983-1984. Recipient American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters award, 1979, Levinson prize Poetry magazine, 1996-1997.Fellowship in poetry New York State Council for Arts, 1976, 80, National Endowment for Arts, 1981-1982, New York Foundation for Arts, 1985. Fulbright fellow to Israel Hebrew University, 1983-1984. Recipient American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters award, 1979, Levinson prize Poetry magazine, 1996-1997.