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Reel to Reel

Reel to Reel

by Shapiro, Alan

fromPhoenix poets

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Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro's twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even the outer spaces of the cosmos itself. In language richl…

Life Pig

Life Pig

by Shapiro, Alan

fromPhoenix poets

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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Life Pig -- One -- The Hebrew Ouija Board -- The Hiawatha Recitation -- The Look -- Trajan's Column -- Moon Landing, 1969 -- Ghost of the Old Arcade -- Let Me Hear You -- Thanks for Nothing -- Two -- Vantage -- The Killing -- Low Tide -- Green Thou…

Life pig

Life pig

by Shapiro, Alan

fromPhoenix poets

0 Type: Book

From Let Me Hear You Outside is inside now. The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into the mouth that's shouting it. A…

Life pig

Life pig

by Shapiro, Alan

fromPhoenix poets

0 Type: Book

"Shapiro's wonderful and deft volume opens new possibilities for the public and private poem. From the 'sugar high' of an astronaut's step on television, to the 'sleep and terror' of a lost decade of youth, to the wrenching deathbed images of a parent, this book has all the musi…