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In his memoirs The Last Happy Occasion (1997), nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, and Vigil (1997), Shapiro has written about the death of his sister and the role that poetry has played in his life.
enough away for no one yet to notice. as her legs cross that the ashtray in her lap. spills ash over the sunflowers of her housedress. Or that the cigarette between her fingers. sags loosely and is dangling while the hand. lifts like a puppet’s on a string of smoke. Her death is just three months away. Even though it’s summer (otherwise.
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1. Time Does Not Bring Relief (Sonnet II) Famous Poem. By Edna St. Vincent Millay. Time does not bring relief; you all have lied. Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; Read Complete Poem. Stories 12. Shares 3181. Favorited 46. Votes 977. Rating 4.36.
The Last Scene. By Alan R. Shapiro. Extravagant sweep. of clear sky. darkening. in the big picture window. beside the bed, lights here and there. already flashing all. across the city down below us— Ellen. and the girls out somewhere, you and I alone, you with your eyes closed, I with a drink in hand: you suddenly in character, your voice.
One of the most renowned poems about loss, "Gone, Yet Everywhere" by Mary Elizabeth Frye, speaks to the omnipresence of a departed loved one. Here, we witness the poet grappling with the profound absence of her husband while simultaneously feeling his presence in the world around her. These lines exemplify the emotional depth of the poem:
Award-winning poet Alan Shapiro offers a new collection of poems reflecting on mortality and finitude. Alan Shapiro’s fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious place in a world dominated by the ever-accelerating pace of technological innovation ...
Alan Richard Shapiro (born February 18, 1952, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . Shapiro's poetry books include Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and Dead Alive and Busy.
