About the Author: Alan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
96 Pages
Poetry, American
Series Name: Phoenix Poets
Description
About the Book
Alan Shapiro s last two books, "Reel to Reel" and "Night of the Republic," achieved national recognition as being designated finalists for two of the most prestigious prizes in the US (the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, respectively). Here Shapiro focuses on the female body in various states: the body in history; the body in middle age; and the body facing death. If in "Reel to Reel "we get a sense of the poet s eye expanding from the smallest atom to the vastness of the universe, this new book takes us in the opposite direction: from the wider, ongoing consumption of the world to the final consumption of a single, individual body, all harrowingly told in beautifully composed poems, exhibiting all the characteristics we ve come to expect from this master poet: a signature, plainspoken and direct speech, and a combination of humor and bleakness that arrives at no easy answers."
Book Synopsis
From Let Me Hear You
Outside is inside now. The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into the mouth that's shouting it.
Alan Shapiro's newest book of poetry is situated at the intersection between private and public history, as well as individual life and the collective life of middle-class America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether writing about an aged and dying parent or remembering incidents from childhood and adolescence, Shapiro attends to the world in ways that are as deeply personal as they are recognizable and freshly social-both timeless and utterly of this particular moment.
Review Quotes
"Shapiro's wonderful and deft volume opens new possibilities for the public and private poem. From the 'sugar high' of an astronaut's step on television, to the 'sleep and terror' of a lost decade of youth, to the wrenching deathbed images of a parent, this book has all the music of public elegy and all the intimacy of a private soliloquy. These moving and powerfully crafted poems make us participants, not spectators. They draw us into deeper understandings of our own losses and give us a language for what often seems beyond speech."--Eavan Boland, author of A Woman Without a Country
"In deft, quiet language, National Book Award finalist Shapiro . . . recalls the past and how it sometimes hurts. . . . Capturing what many of his readers face, Shapiro . . . has his moment of triumph and honor."-- "Library Journal"
About the Author
Alan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A new collection of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration, is also available this fall from the University of Chicago Press.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.3 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)
Weight: .3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 96
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Series Title: Phoenix Poets
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Alan Shapiro
Language: English
Street Date: September 5, 2016
TCIN: 1008941668
UPC: 9780226404172
Item Number (DPCI): 247-40-6153
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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