Post by ashorow35 on May 21, 2012 20:20:50 GMT -5
Good evening. To pause whatever action you are currently doing, and to take a step back from the mayhem of our everyday lives may be an almost impossible task. Our self-centered society does not take into account the world around their own. Luckily, there is a poet who “has brought forward the humanity of our lives…Beauty, tragedy, humor, and love flash upon one from almost of every page.” Philip Schultz. For over 40 years American poet Philip Schultz has blessed the world with his outstanding works of poetry that encompass the hardships and success that tail being an American in both the 20th and 21st centuries.
Inspired from his immigrant family lifestyle of his childhood, he Schultz uses his experiences as a poor minority to reflect upon the lives of those around him. Native to Rochester, NY, he celebrates plainly and brilliantly the embattled diversity of city life. His personal experiences have been included in most of his earlier works such as Deep Within The Ravine, that “disclose the pain of memory and the pangs of desire, the disturbances of Jewish family life and the ambivalence of maturity.”
Readers are allowed to grow with Schultz through his many years in the world of poetry as he grows and matures from describing his own experiences and personal encounters, to that of the everyday man in today’s society. This is most clearly stated in one of his most recent works, Failure, in which Schultz has a remarkable capacity for empathy with his fellow creatures, and its “as if he bears our pain.”
Schultz’s work delves into personal history, family, the city, and immigrant and Jewish experience. In Failure, Schultz wrote of his father, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, who attempted a series of unforgettable and unsuccessful business ventures when Shultz was growing up, ultimately leaving his son and wife in impoverished circumstances at the time of his early death. Schultz has observed in interviews that it took him many years to write about his father with honesty.
Philip Schultz is both a writer and educator of poetry. He founded The Writer’s Studio in 1987 after spending four years as the director of New York University’s graduate creative writing program. Mr. Schultz has taught undergraduate and graduate fiction, poetry, literature, and craft classes at multiple colleges and universities across the nation. His personal philosophy to writing and teaching is simple: be truthful about what you see. He has said that “most people spend their lives developing defenses against their feelings…everyone can learn to write competently and originally about their experiences.”
In addition to Deep Within The Ravine and Failure, Schultz has published multiple other volumes of poetry that express this view of the “American” he sees with his eyes. Schultz’s poetry is “a brilliant Fellini-like cavalcade of people and images that make you want to laugh and cry at the same.”
A Pulitzer Prize winner, along with many other praises and recognitions, Philip Schultz is a poetry powerhouse who has mastered the art of expressing experiences, and confronting what’s around you. His poems “register a movement from desire, pain, and loss to sympathy and understanding. This movement makes all the difference in the world.”
He allows us to speak to our common humanity and truly realize what life has to offer.
Please welcome this truly remarkable poet and author, Philip Schultz.
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Inspired from his immigrant family lifestyle of his childhood, he Schultz uses his experiences as a poor minority to reflect upon the lives of those around him. Native to Rochester, NY, he celebrates plainly and brilliantly the embattled diversity of city life. His personal experiences have been included in most of his earlier works such as Deep Within The Ravine, that “disclose the pain of memory and the pangs of desire, the disturbances of Jewish family life and the ambivalence of maturity.”
Readers are allowed to grow with Schultz through his many years in the world of poetry as he grows and matures from describing his own experiences and personal encounters, to that of the everyday man in today’s society. This is most clearly stated in one of his most recent works, Failure, in which Schultz has a remarkable capacity for empathy with his fellow creatures, and its “as if he bears our pain.”
Schultz’s work delves into personal history, family, the city, and immigrant and Jewish experience. In Failure, Schultz wrote of his father, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, who attempted a series of unforgettable and unsuccessful business ventures when Shultz was growing up, ultimately leaving his son and wife in impoverished circumstances at the time of his early death. Schultz has observed in interviews that it took him many years to write about his father with honesty.
Philip Schultz is both a writer and educator of poetry. He founded The Writer’s Studio in 1987 after spending four years as the director of New York University’s graduate creative writing program. Mr. Schultz has taught undergraduate and graduate fiction, poetry, literature, and craft classes at multiple colleges and universities across the nation. His personal philosophy to writing and teaching is simple: be truthful about what you see. He has said that “most people spend their lives developing defenses against their feelings…everyone can learn to write competently and originally about their experiences.”
In addition to Deep Within The Ravine and Failure, Schultz has published multiple other volumes of poetry that express this view of the “American” he sees with his eyes. Schultz’s poetry is “a brilliant Fellini-like cavalcade of people and images that make you want to laugh and cry at the same.”
A Pulitzer Prize winner, along with many other praises and recognitions, Philip Schultz is a poetry powerhouse who has mastered the art of expressing experiences, and confronting what’s around you. His poems “register a movement from desire, pain, and loss to sympathy and understanding. This movement makes all the difference in the world.”
He allows us to speak to our common humanity and truly realize what life has to offer.
Please welcome this truly remarkable poet and author, Philip Schultz.
Word Count: 558