9780226750446

Covenant

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780226750446

Hardcover|9780226750446


Overview

"The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence. His poetry comes by its sad wisdom through its accomodations to human happenstance and estrangement. . . .In Covenant, sympathy grounds itself in worldly particulars, and subjectivity begets responsibilities. Hardnosed yet tenderly attentive, Shapiro's acute self-consciousness distills an exacting conscientiousness."--David Barber, Poetry

"At forty-years-old and already the author of four superbly written books of poems, Shapiro has produced a work of such authority and originality that he has permanently enlarged my hopes and expectations for contemporary poetry. His risk-loving swiftness of perception and his affinity for stories that up-end convention and taboo have enabled him to reclaim, for poets of my generation, areas of feeling and linguistic virtuosity that originated with William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, J. V. Cunningham, and Ivor Winters. It is hard for me to see how an ideal anthologist of the future will be able to include their names without gratefully including his."--Tom Sleigh, Boston Phoenix


ISBN-13

9780226750446

ISBN-10

0226750442

Weight

0.60 Pounds

Dimensions

5.50 x 0.50 x 8.50 In

List Price

$99.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

100 pages

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published On

1991-11-15



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