Enormous Morning: Poems

A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet examines the lives and sacrifices of his foremothers in his most personal collection yet.

Philip Schultz is famous for his empathetic explorations of male shortcomings, primarily those of his late father. Enormous Morning, his incisive new volume, reflects on the sacrifices of women in their roles as mothers, wives, and friends, including those of his own mother, who was forced to support the family in the face of his father’s financial ruin. The collection ends...