The wild card: selected poems, early and late

As Shapiro's subjects have evolved, so has his style, developing and modulating into various forms, but always with an essential rhythm and lyricism. To read Shapiro's work as it unfolds in The Wild Card will be to grasp the depth and breadth of a great poet's career and the many side...

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Main Author: Shapiro, Karl (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana [u.a.] Univ. of Illinois Press 1998
Series:Illinois poetry series
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Summary:As Shapiro's subjects have evolved, so has his style, developing and modulating into various forms, but always with an essential rhythm and lyricism. To read Shapiro's work as it unfolds in The Wild Card will be to grasp the depth and breadth of a great poet's career and the many sides of his nature
Supported by a grant from the Eric Mathieu King Fund of the Academy of American Poets
Abstract:The Wild Card is that gem among books: a selection of those enduring works that will definitively represent the poet as one of the major artists of our time. Karl Shapiro, who won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1945 for his second collection, V-Letter and Other Poems, is an American poetic treasure and an acknowledged master of lyrical poetry whose subjects have ranged from commonplace objects and occurrences to biting political commentary to open celebrations of the "necessary contradictions" in humanity's moral nature
Physical Description:XXIII, 191 S.
ISBN:0252023897
0252066898