Selected poems, 1974-1996
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Selected poems, 1974-1996
(Poetry Pléiade)
Carcanet, 2000
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This selection, published from 1981-1996 engaes with urgent issues of personal identity within the interlocking communities of a modern world and within history. The intimate bonds of family life are points of departure and return. Shapiro sees personal identity as mutable and multiple, a matrix of often conflicting cultural and linguistic histories that shape our desires. The style and language of his poems are necessariy mixed, by turns lyrical and narrative, slangy and elevated, analytical and visionary. They move between private and public, historical and mythic perspectives. Shapiro devises a language to accommodate the full range of is experience as a middle-class Jewish-American influenced at the same time by the Jewish Bible, Chirstian and Graeco-Roman literature, and by popular culture.
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