Selected poems / Karl Shapiro ; John Updike, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Updike, John.

Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress)

Series:

American poets project

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Updike, John (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxi, 197 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Library of America, [2003]

Summary:

In this new selection, master literary craftsman John Updike provides a long-overdue reassessment of Karl Shapiro, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who has become one of the defining figures of the postwar period.

Contents:

from Person, place and thing (1942): Necropolis; Auto wreck; Dome of Sunday; Epitaph for John and Richard; Drug store; Haircut; Mongolian idiot; Scyros; Elegy for two banjos; Buick; Fly; Snob; University; Washington Cathedral; Emporium; My grandmother; October 1; Confirmatin; Honkytonk; Hollywood; Birds; Cut flower; Terminal; Conscription camp; Giantess

from The place of love (1942): My hair; Tongue

from V-Letter and other poems (1944): Aside; Sydney Bridge; Troop train; Christmas Eve, Australia; Full moon, New Guinea; Sunday, New Guinea; Nigger; Franklin; Interlude; Bed; Synagogue; Birthday poem; Leg; Movie; Elegy for a dead soldier; Crusoe; Intellectual; Spider; Satire, anxiety; V-Letter

from Essay on rime (1945)

from Trial of a poet (1947): Homecoming; Demobilization; Conscientious objector; Convert; Urn of ashes; from Recapitulations; Dirty word; Words for a child's birthday; Air liner; Progress of Faust; from Trial of a poet

from Poems 1940-1953 (1953): Israel; Ego; Figurehead; Glass poem; Minute; Love for a hand; Phenomenon; French postcard; Going to school

from Poems of a Jew (1958): Alphabet; Olive tree; First time; Crucifix in the filing cabinet

from The Bourgeois poet (1964): Bourgeois poet; Sub-division; Garrison state; Office love; High school; Dermatologist; Absences; Third class, Queen Mary; Tahiti 1936; Burlesk; Bouquet; War movies; Fox hole; Missal; I am an atheist who says his prayers; Lower the standard; Prosody; Funeral of poetry

from Selected poems (1968): Manhole covers; Western town; New museum; Poetry reading; Tornado warning; Human nature; California winter

from White-haired lover (1968): You played Chopin; How do I love you?; You lay above me; O my beloved; Aubade

from Adult bookstore (1976): Adult bookstore; Girls working in banks; California petrarchan; Garage sale; My father's funeral; My fame's not feeling well; To Lesbia

from Collected poems 1940-1978 (1978): W.H.A.; Accountant; Mozart's Jew

from New & selected poems 1940-1986 (1987): At Auden's grave; Vietnam Memorial; And now, the weather; Grant's Tomb revisited; Homewreck; Back; Reitrement

from The old horsefly (1992): Old horsefly; Whitman; Kleenex; Creative writing; Ovid; July 7, 1978; Future-present; "There's one."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the editor.

Other Format:

Online version: Shapiro, Karl Jay, 1913-2000. Poems. Selections. Selected poems.

ISBN:

1931082340

9781931082341

OCLC:

50417463

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