Enormous Morning by Philip Schultz is enormous in its heart and breadth and depth of life experiences. . . . These poems ask the little questions but always end with the biggest questions. These are smart, wise, and coy poems to hear and overhear.--Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World

Philip Schultz mines public and private histories, grieving the loss of life and praising the grace by which much and many are permitted to survive. With expansive lyric poems that reckon with his own forbears' experience of 'ungodly wars and holocaust obliterations, ' revisit the cataclysm of the Armenian genocide, and bear witness to the deceptions and annihilations of our current time, Enormous Morning makes a formidable case for compassion and the world-redeeming power of love.--Tracy K. Smith, author of Fear Less

Enormous Morning is a riveting encounter with the necessities of life--what we love, recoil from, praise, and bless--and a probing of vivid truths about the daily trials of our time on Earth. Philip Schultz finds joy and illumination amid the quotidian and surprises in the darkness. . . . Ever more in these times, Schultz's poems are essential.--Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Ozone Journal

The verbal alchemy, that is, the magic that is poetry, emerges here in how Schultz, using the simplest means and the most straightforward language, has turned personal story . . . into a grand, universal, and ironic statement. And one that is true.--Allan Appel "New Haven Independent"

[Schultz] understands that complicated compassion is far more compelling than 'the bitterness that lives in us like bad dreams.'--Meagan Masterman "Midbrow"

In his twelfth collection, Pulitzer Prize winner Schultz argues, hectors, insists, and celebrates. . . . His past is as alive to him as the present.--Michael Autrey "Booklist"

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Pub date: 2026-03-10

Length: 96 pages