Life pig / Alan Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Alan, 1952- author.

Series:

Phoenix poets

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 87 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Summary:

Alan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A new collection of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration, is also available from the University of Chicago Press. Book jacket.

Contents:

1

The Hebrew Ouija Board 3

The Hiawatha Recitation 5

The Look 7

Trajan's Column 10

Moon Landing, 1969 13

Ghost of the Old Arcade 15

Let Me Hear You 17

Thanks for Nothing 19

2

Vantage 29

The Killing 30

Low Tide 31

Green Thought 33

Toward Language 35

Stele 37

Frieze 40

Dog Heart 41

Scat 43

On the Greenway behind My Old House 45

In the Hotel Room 47

Present 49

3

On the Beach 53

Her Closet 55

Dressing Table 56

The Bedroom 58

The Pig 60

Heavy Snow 62

Goodness and Mercy 63

Sweetness and Night 66

Accident 68

Mother Palinode 69

The Weeper 71

The Last Outing 73

Archimedes 75

The Sibyl's Nursing Home 77

Terminal Restlessness 79

Enough 80

Visitation 82.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780226404172

022640417X

OCLC:

936350624