We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary
More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration” is part memoir, part literary criticism, and a thorough and artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait o
More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration” is part memoir, part literary criticism, and a thorough and artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait o
From Let Me Hear You Outside is inside now.The pyramid whose pointwe are is weightlessand invisibleand has become itself the nightin which alonetogetheron a high plateauwe go on shoutingout whate
Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro’s twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the n
In his sixth book of poems, Alan Shapiro once again shows that he is a master at articulating the secrets of the heart. The Dead Alive and Busy deals with issues of personal identity as revealed throu
In his sixth book of poems, Alan Shapiro once again shows that he is a master at articulating the secrets of the heart. The Dead Alive and Busy deals with issues of personal identity as revealed throu
The author traces his coming-of-age as an aspiring poet in a Jewish household in the late sixties, exploring how his discovery of particular poems shaped his life, from his relationship to Judaism to
Describes how poetry can illuminate and influence an ordinary-seeming life, and recounts the author's middle-class Jewish childhood, his youth in the 1960s, including his attendance at Woodstock, the
A collection of essays on the situation of poetry in contemporary American culture, from Shapiro's multiple perspectives as poet (four volumes), teacher of poetry (U. of North Carolina, Greensboro), a
"Within his deliberately narrowed range Mr. Shapiro has cultivated a new generosity of detail and insight. This is especially important in the longer poems here, narratives of considerable power. They
From a winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, a new collection that explores the vagaries of love and the place of beauty in a time of war.In October 2002, at the age of fifty, Alan Shapiro collapsed whi
"The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence. His poetry comes by its sad wisdom through its accomodations to human happens
