Alan Shapiro, Author . Houghton Mifflin $22 (80p) ISBN 978-0-618-15285-8
Brief, tightly wrought and compelling, this eighth book of poems from Shapiro (The Last Happy Occasion) remembers his charismatic brother David, a Broadway actor who died recently from brain cancer. Shapiro's terse, moving sequence begins with...
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Alan Shapiro, Author . Houghton Mifflin $22 (87p) ISBN 978-0-618-45242-2
If love is the province of poets, slow, grinding breakups are usually novelist's territory. The figure of Tantalus takes the form of a husband, who, after 20 years of marriage, admires his wife as she rises before him in the morning and "know
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Alan Shapiro, Author University of Chicago Press $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-226-75032-3
Many recent autobiographies trade on the author's celebrity, miserable childhood or personal problems. Shapiro, a middle-aged English professor and prize-winning poet (Happy Hours) has none of that baggage to carry and exploit. Yet his book has a...
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Alan Shapiro, Author University of Chicago Press $18.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-226-75034-7
In his recent memoir, the NBCC finalist The Last Happy Occasion, Shapiro showed how our lives can be transformed by art, specifically poetry. Here, Shapiro shows how our lives are transformed, not by art, but by the lives of those we love. With his...
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Alan Shapiro, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (89p) ISBN 978-0-618-45243-9
With its many characters, forms and storylines and its repeated looks at death and old age, this tenth outing from the widely-respected Shapiro (Mixed Company) could be both the saddest, and the most various, of his works. The poet opens with...
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Alan Shapiro. Algonquin, $13.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-56512-983-2
For his fiction debut, poet and memoirist Shapiro (The Courtesy) has produced an intimate character study that covers the Depression era to the present. After a fateful trip to New York City in the 1930s with her mother, Boston native Miriam...
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