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In this new selection of poems by Karl Shapiro, master literary craftsman John Updike provides a long-overdue reassessment of the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who first rose to prominence with his poems about war.
Updike’s great personal respect and affection for Shapiro’s work resonate throughout the essay he wrote to introduce the volume: “Karl Shapiro’s tone is breezy, surly, rapturous as the mood rapidly shifts. The last lines often stub our toes and invite us to reread. The concreteness can seem defiant. . . . His feet planted on the substantive, he could be modest and casual but also bold, with the boldness of truth personally verified.” In the poems he’s assembled, Updike selected broadly from the entire span of Shapiro’s writing life, and his introduction establishes an enduring place in American literature for the poet whose pungency and vast range of subjects have helped define American poetry of the postwar period.
About the American Poets Project
Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.
Updike’s great personal respect and affection for Shapiro’s work resonate throughout the essay he wrote to introduce the volume: “Karl Shapiro’s tone is breezy, surly, rapturous as the mood rapidly shifts. The last lines often stub our toes and invite us to reread. The concreteness can seem defiant. . . . His feet planted on the substantive, he could be modest and casual but also bold, with the boldness of truth personally verified.” In the poems he’s assembled, Updike selected broadly from the entire span of Shapiro’s writing life, and his introduction establishes an enduring place in American literature for the poet whose pungency and vast range of subjects have helped define American poetry of the postwar period.
About the American Poets Project
Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781931082341 |
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Publisher: | Library of America |
Publication date: | 01/27/2003 |
Series: | American Poets Project , #3 |
Pages: | 197 |
Sales rank: | 1,037,151 |
Product dimensions: | 4.79(w) x 7.79(h) x 0.67(d) |
About the Author
John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He is the author of more than sixty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the Howells Medal, among other honors.
Table of Contents
Introduction | xvii | |
from Person, Place and Thing (1942) | ||
Necropolis | 1 | |
Auto Wreck | 2 | |
The Dome of Sunday | 3 | |
Epitaph for John and Richard | 5 | |
Drug Store | 6 | |
Haircut | 7 | |
Mongolian Idiot | 8 | |
Scyros | 9 | |
Elegy for Two Banjos | 11 | |
Buick | 13 | |
The Fly | 14 | |
The Snob | 16 | |
University | 17 | |
Washington Cathedral | 18 | |
Emporium | 20 | |
My Grandmother | 21 | |
October 1 | 22 | |
The Confirmation | 23 | |
Honkytonk | 25 | |
Hollywood | 26 | |
The Birds | 28 | |
A Cut Flower | 29 | |
Terminal | 30 | |
Conscription Camp | 32 | |
Giantess | 35 | |
from The Place of Love (1942) | ||
My Hair | 36 | |
The Tongue | 37 | |
from V-Letter and Other Poems (1944) | ||
Aside | 38 | |
Sydney Bridge | 40 | |
Trop Train | 41 | |
Christmas Eve: Australia | 42 | |
Full Moon: New Guinea | 43 | |
Sunday: New Guinea | 43 | |
Nigger | 44 | |
Franklin | 46 | |
The Interlude | 47 | |
The Bed | 49 | |
The Synagogue | 50 | |
Birthday Poem | 53 | |
The Leg | 55 | |
Movie | 56 | |
Elegy for a Dead Soldier | 58 | |
Crusoe | 64 | |
The Intellectual | 65 | |
Spider | 67 | |
Satire: Anxiety | 67 | |
V-Letter | 69 | |
from Essay on Rime (1945) | 72 | |
from Trial of a Poet (1947) | ||
Homecoming | 76 | |
Demobilization | 77 | |
The Conscientious Objector | 79 | |
The Convert | 81 | |
An Urn of Ashes | 82 | |
from Recapitulations | 84 | |
The Dirty Word | 88 | |
Words for a Child's Birthday | 89 | |
Air Liner | 91 | |
The Progress of Faust | 93 | |
from Trial of a Poet | 95 | |
from Poems 1940-1953 (1953) | ||
Israel | 97 | |
Ego | 98 | |
The Figurehead | 99 | |
Glass Poem | 100 | |
The Minute | 101 | |
Love for a Hand | 102 | |
The Phenomenon | 103 | |
French Postcard | 104 | |
Going to School | 105 | |
from Poems of a Jew (1958) | ||
The Alphabet | 109 | |
The Olive Tree | 110 | |
The First Time | 111 | |
The Crucifix in the Filing Cabinet | 112 | |
The Murder of Moses | 113 | |
from The Bourgeois Poet (1964) | ||
The Bourgeois Poet | 116 | |
Sub-Division | 116 | |
Garrison State | 117 | |
Office Love | 119 | |
High School | 120 | |
The Dermatologist | 121 | |
Absences | 122 | |
Third Class, Queen Mary | 123 | |
Tahiti 1936 | 124 | |
Burlesk | 125 | |
Bouquet | 126 | |
War Movies | 127 | |
Fox Hole | 128 | |
The Missal | 129 | |
I Am an Atheist Who Says His Prayers | 130 | |
Lower the Standard | 133 | |
Prosody | 134 | |
The Funeral of Poetry | 135 | |
from Selected Poems (1968) | ||
Manhole Covers | 137 | |
Western Town | 137 | |
New Museum | 138 | |
The Poetry Reading | 140 | |
Tornado Warning | 142 | |
Human Nature | 143 | |
California Winter | 144 | |
from White-Haired Lover (1968) | ||
You Played Chopin | 146 | |
How Do I Love You? | 146 | |
You Lay Above Me | 147 | |
O My Beloved | 147 | |
Aubade | 148 | |
from Adult Bookstore (1976) | ||
Adult Bookstore | 151 | |
Girls Working in Banks | 152 | |
California Petrarchan | 153 | |
Garage Sale | 154 | |
My Father's Funeral | 155 | |
My Fame's Not Feeling Well | 158 | |
To Lesbia | 159 | |
from Collected Poems 1940-1978 (1978) | ||
W.H.A. | 160 | |
The Accountant | 161 | |
Mozart's Jew | 162 | |
from New & Selected Poems 1940-1986 (1987) | ||
At Auden's Grave | 163 | |
Vietnam Memorial | 166 | |
And Now, the Weather... | 166 | |
Grant's Tomb Revisited | 167 | |
Homewreck | 169 | |
The Back | 170 | |
Retirement | 171 | |
from The Old Horsefly (1992) | ||
The Old Horsefly | 172 | |
Whitman | 173 | |
Kleenex | 174 | |
Creative Writing | 175 | |
Ovid | 176 | |
July 7, 1978 | 177 | |
Future-Present | 178 | |
"There's One" | 179 | |
Biographical Note | 183 | |
Note on the Texts | 185 | |
Notes | 187 | |
Index of Titles and First Lines | 191 |
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