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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
March 11, 2008
Pages
89
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780618452439
ISBN-10
0618452435
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.65 lbs.
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$22.00
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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 while playing basketball. A few months later, on the eve of Americaâs invasion of Iraq, he remarried. The beginning of this happy chapter of his life coincided with a keen reminder of his own mortality and the menacing nature of the times we live in. The poems in Old War, Shapiroâs ninth and most innovative collection, were written under the double aspect of love and fear, of hope that comes with any fresh start and the sense that history will eventually undo or destroy whatever we struggle to make. Through an impressive variety of forms and styles, from first-person lyrics to dramatic monologues spoken by characters ranging from a country and western singer to a Jewish comic doing standup in heaven, they cast brilliant light on the nature of art, love, and family in a world defined by brutality, deception, and instability.
In October 2002, at the age of fifty, Alan Shapiro collapsed while playing basketball. A few months later, on the eve of Americaâs invasion of Iraq, he remarried. The beginning of this happy chapter of his life coincided with a keen reminder of his own mortality and the menacing nature of the times we live in. The poems in Old War, Shapiroâs ninth and most innovative collection, were written under the double aspect of love and fear, of hope that comes with any fresh start and the sense that history will eventually undo or destroy whatever we struggle to make. Through an impressive variety of forms and styles, from first-person lyrics to dramatic monologues spoken by characters ranging from a country and western singer to a Jewish comic doing standup in heaven, they cast brilliant light on the nature of art, love, and family in a world defined by brutality, deception, and instability.
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9780618452439 | details & prices | 89 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $22.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
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