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
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
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 brother's story of his sister's last weeks in a hospice as her family try to come to terms with her terminal cancer and reconcile their shared and often scarred histories. For general readers. No in
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
Respected poet, teacher, and critic Alan Shapiro continues his much-acclaimed explorations of childhood, family, and marriage in Mixed Company. Revealing a world troubled by difference while strugglin
