The distinguished poet Harvey Shapiro passed away on January 7, 2013. The poems in this book, many of them previously unpublished and discovered only after his death, are a great gift, and the final confirmation of his extraordinary talent. Edited by Shapiro’s literary executor, the poet and critic Norman Finkelstein, these last poems bear an unprecedented gravitas, and yet they are as supple, jazzy, and edgy as Shapiro’s earlier work. All the themes for which he is known are beautifully represented here. There are poems of his experiences in World War II, the erotic life, and of daily moments in Brooklyn and Manhattan, all in search of a worldly wisdom and grace that the poet calls ‚a momentary glory.‘ As Shapiro tells us, the poem ‚Is an Egyptian / ship of the dead, / everything required / for life stored / in its hold.‘ The book includes an introduction by the editor.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Editor’s Introduction
The Old Man Has One Thought and Then Another
For William Carlos Williams
Reznikoff
Oppen
‚It may have been…‘
‚When I asked Wallace Stevens…‘
The People’s Poet
On a Rejection Note From Paul Muldoon
Homage
Lines (1)
Now I Write
On My Book
Writing
‚I wrote two poems in my sleep…‘
The Poem
During the Second World War
Memorial Day
An American Life
Discourse On Education
Foggia, Italy
The Old War
Song
The Transaction
Alexandra
Lydia
Cynthia
King Kong’s Wong
Nightpiece
‚Drear, bleared and boiled…‘
A Story
Brief Lives
Brooklyn
To The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Lines (2)
7th Avenue IRT
Times Square
In the City
Praise For
The Keys
Key West
Florida
Real Estate
Deer
Suburban Note
Rockport
Paris
In Prague
Questions
Green
Mozart Poem
World
In the Beginning
Dan, Age 10, Explains
Bush Poem
Hot Summer
‚A bird in a tree…‘
Birds
‚Like a boy again…‘
Remembering
Friday
Book Group
‚I am in a warm room…‘
The Distance
Rabbi Nachman’s Parable
For Adin
Dejection
The Mother of Invention
Planning
Honestly
‚Where was the wisdom…‘
Drums
In Argument
The Old Jew
Lines (3)
Departures
2007
The Office
In the Office
Hospital Poem
Self-Pity
Lines (4)
Luxury of Time
‚The piece of myself…‘
Pardoned
City Poem
Poetics
For Galen
Bright Winter
A Momentary Glory
Psalm
Über den Autor
Harvey Shapiro published his first book of poetry in 1953. He taught at Cornell University and Bard College before joining the staffs of Commentary and The New Yorker. In 1957 he became an editor of The New York Times Magazine and was editor of The New York Times Book Review from 1975 until 1983. He lived in Brooklyn, New York.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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