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Alan Shapiro
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
October 1, 1991
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226750453
ISBN-10
0226750450
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.35 lbs.
Original list price
$23.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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"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 happenstance and estrangement. . . .In Covenant, sympathy grounds itself in worldly particulars, and subjectivity begets responsibilities. Hardnosed yet tenderly attentive, Shapiro's acute self-consciousness distills an exacting conscientiousness."—David Barber, Poetry
"At forty-years-old and already the author of four superbly written books of poems, Shapiro has produced a work of such authority and originality that he has permanently enlarged my hopes and expectations for contemporary poetry. His risk-loving swiftness of perception and his affinity for stories that up-end convention and taboo have enabled him to reclaim, for poets of my generation, areas of feeling and linguistic virtuosity that originated with William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, J. V. Cunningham, and Ivor Winters. It is hard for me to see how an ideal anthologist of the future will be able to include their names without gratefully including his."—Tom Sleigh, Boston Phoenix
"At forty-years-old and already the author of four superbly written books of poems, Shapiro has produced a work of such authority and originality that he has permanently enlarged my hopes and expectations for contemporary poetry. His risk-loving swiftness of perception and his affinity for stories that up-end convention and taboo have enabled him to reclaim, for poets of my generation, areas of feeling and linguistic virtuosity that originated with William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, J. V. Cunningham, and Ivor Winters. It is hard for me to see how an ideal anthologist of the future will be able to include their names without gratefully including his."—Tom Sleigh, Boston Phoenix
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of Chicago Pr (November 15, 1991)
9780226750446 | details & prices | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $38.00
About: "The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence.
About: "The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence.
Paperback
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (October 1, 1991)
9780226750453 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $23.00
About: "The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence.
About: "The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence.
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