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Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Alan Shapiro was educated at Brandeis University. As the author of numerous collections of poetry, Shapiro has explored family, loss, domesticity, and the daily aspects of people’s lives in free verse and traditional poetic forms. He has published over ten books of poetry, most recently Life Pig ; (2016); Reel ...
in the early days of bussing, between assassinations, before our quaint welcoming of them had come to seem, even to ourselves, the haughty overflow of wealth
Alan Shapiro. 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 ...
Against Translation. By Alan R. Shapiro. The songs swept down from the northern steppes. with cinerary horse. and sword and vestment. in the wake of battle. suicidal for a bronze. translation of flesh burnt. to a vertical vapor trail.
Dec 19, 2006 · By David Caplan. ISSUE: Winter 2007. In 1995 the poet Alan Shapiro impatiently awaited a flight to Houston, where his sister lay dying of breast cancer. At the airport he noticed members of the Bill T. Jones dance troupe waiting for the same flight.
Mar 25, 2022 · 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, political disruption, personal loss, and racial strife ...
Between Assassinations And Black Maid: Two Poems by Alan Shapiro - Southern Cultures. by Alan Shapiro. Southern Cultures, Vol. 10, No. 4: Winter 2004. "What was your last name, where did you live?" Between Assassinations. Old court. Old chain net hanging in frayed links from the rim, the metal backboard dented, darker where the ball.
