Description: Bigger and more compelling than 1997 Selected that it replaces, this volume offers a virtual tour Shapiro's New York City, his American Jewish identity and his experience in WWII. Beginning as a strict 1950s formalist, Shapiro discovered his métier in the early 1970s, with a free verse indebted to William Carlos Williams and George Oppen and a dedication to humility and descriptive clarity. In his mature poems, Shapiro pays comic and ecstatic attention to sex ("Eros, destroyer / of meaning and creator of song"); records his visits to Japan and to Jerusalem; translates poets from the Yiddish; and rebukes himself for the way he has lived his life: "Equipped with an imagination for disaster, / you never seem to anticipate the real disasters." Though he may not have invented a fully original style, Shapiro, who did a stint as editor of the New York Times Book Review has amassed a substantial body of work that presents a well-observed 20th century life, one that "keeps looking for language."Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Book Title: Sights Along the Harbor : New and Collected Poems
Number of Pages: 292 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
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Publication Year: 2006
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Harvey Shapiro
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Book Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
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