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
An urgent and timely collection by one of America’s most inventive and accessible poetsIn Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America’s public places—a gas stat
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
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
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
