Alan Shapiro
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Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop: Notes on Pattern and Variation
Looking at examples from Ross Gay, William Carlos Williams, C.K. Williams, Lucille Clifton, Thom Gunn,…
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Money
“What no one ever spoke of / was saying itself through the little that was…
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Gratitude for Nothing
Responding to a friend’s poem and playing on the phrase “Thanks for Nothing,” Alan Shapiro…
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Homeric Turns
A masterful poem of suffering, storytelling and gods from Alan Shapiro, in whose hands “the…
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Tantalus in Love
Alan Shapiro weaves Greek myth into a dramatic rendering of a marriage’s last moments and…