The sights along the harbor : new and collected poems / Harvey Shapiro.
2006
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Title
The sights along the harbor : new and collected poems / Harvey Shapiro.
Author
ISBN
9780819567956 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0819567957 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0819567957 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Published
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2006].
Copyright
©2006.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Exhibited
2006 Poets House Showcase.
Other Standard Identifiers
9780819567956
System Control No.
(OCoLC)61169761
Summary
"Direct, informal, and richly evocative of his Jewish heritage and New York City home, Harvey Shapiro's poetry has occupied a unique place in American letters for over fifty years. This new collection brings together his latest work and much of his eleven previous collections, revealing the full arc of his carefully calibrated poetics. Shapiro engages themes including the immigrant experience, urban landmarks and lifestyles, family life, and war. The reader will see the more formal British-tinged cadences of his earlier work give way to the colloquial, personal nature of his later poems, and how Shapiro's candor and simplicity mark his work throughout the last five decades.
Bringing the city and its balance of despair and exuberance into stark relief, this poetry is intimately attuned both to life's quiet disappointments and to its unanticipated miracles."--Jacket.
Bringing the city and its balance of despair and exuberance into stark relief, this poetry is intimately attuned both to life's quiet disappointments and to its unanticipated miracles."--Jacket.
Review
"Direct, informal, and richly evocative of his Jewish heritage and New York City home, Harvey Shapiro's poetry has occupied a unique place in American letters for over fifty years. This new collection brings together his latest work and much of his eleven previous collections, revealing the full arc of his carefully calibrated poetics. Shapiro engages themes including the immigrant experience, urban landmarks and lifestyles, family life, and war. The reader will see the more formal British-tinged cadences of his earlier work give way to the colloquial, personal nature of his later poems, and how Shapiro's candor and simplicity mark his work throughout the last five decades.
Note
Bringing the city and its balance of despair and exuberance into stark relief, this poetry is intimately attuned both to life's quiet disappointments and to its unanticipated miracles."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
New Poems
From The Eye, 1953
From Mountain, Fire, Thornbush, 1961
From Battle Report, 1966
From This World, 1971
From Lauds & Nightsounds,1978
From The Light Holds, 1984
From National Cold Storage Company, 1988
From A Day's Portion, 1994
From Selected Poems, 1997
From How Charles Shavers Died and Other Poems, 2001.
From The Eye, 1953
From Mountain, Fire, Thornbush, 1961
From Battle Report, 1966
From This World, 1971
From Lauds & Nightsounds,1978
From The Light Holds, 1984
From National Cold Storage Company, 1988
From A Day's Portion, 1994
From Selected Poems, 1997
From How Charles Shavers Died and Other Poems, 2001.
Series
Wesleyan poetry
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