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Love & War, Art & God
This collection of Shapiro's poems, dating from 1940 to the present, represents a modest and careful selection of his best work. The 90 poems are divided into four sections: Love, War, Art, and God. The early poems of the '40s reveal a freshness that represents the best of experimental modernism, while those of the '80s are is segmented by loyalties of region, gender, ethnic group, and style of life. Shapiro was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for his V-Letter and Other Poems. ISBN 0-913773-08-5 (pbk.) : $10.00.
Creative Glut
In this sparkling collection edited by Robert Phillips, Shapiro's most trenchant writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters are once again available.
White-haired Lover
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Words to Measure a War
This is a study of the war poetry of nine American men who served in World War II. The efforts of those who had established themselves as poets prior to or during the war (Karl Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, John Ciardi, and William Meredith) are compared with those whose poetic careers began after the war (Louis Simpson, James Dickey, Richard Hugo, Howard Nemerov, and Lincoln Kirstein). The military careers of these soldiers illuminate how their experiences affected the content as well as style of their poems. Each man's poetry directly related to his involvement with the combat environment: the closer the combat experience, the more personal the poetry; the more distant the experience, the more detached the poetry.
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Not at All What One Is Used To
Born in 1915 to one of New England’s elite wealthy families, Isabella Gardner was expected to follow a certain path in life—one that would take her from marriageable debutante to proper society lady. But that plan was derailed when at age eighteen, Isabella caused a drunk-driving accident. Her family, to shield her from disgrace, sent her to Europe for acting studies, not foreseeing how life abroad would fan the romantic longings and artistic impulses that would define the rest of Isabella’s years. In Not at All What One Is Used To, author Marian Janssen tells the story of this passionate, troubled woman, whose career as a poet was in constant compromise with her wayward love life and ...
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The existence of these poems only came about after Shapiro's wife found them in his desk two years after his death. They were in a handwritten notebook and in typescript. Only two of the poems in this final volume of his work have been published.
