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Living in the Past

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Philip Schultz creates a moving balance between narrative and lyric verse in a volume that blends the narrator's memories of growing into tentative manhood with his impressions of the haunted, often crippled lives of the Holocaust survivors who populate his family's Rochester neighborhood. The volume loses some power and cohesiveness in its second half, as the narrator speaks of his adult life, but there is a great deal of thoughtful poignancy throughout this book, which convincingly portrays the simultaneous ephemeralness of our lives and the inescapable solidity of our memories and our history.