Life Pig
Published on 22. December 2022
102 pages
978-0-226-40420-2 (ISBN)
Description
"In deft, quiet language," the Pulitzer Prize finalist "recalls the past and how it sometimes hurts" in his latest poetry collection (
Library Journal).
Alan Shapiro's newest book of poetry explores the intersection between private and public history, as well as individual life and the collective life of middle-class America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether writing about an aged and dying parent or remembering incidents from childhood and adolescence, Shapiro attends to the world in ways that are as deeply personal as they are recognizable and freshly social-both timeless and utterly of this particular moment.
Alan Shapiro's newest book of poetry explores the intersection between private and public history, as well as individual life and the collective life of middle-class America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether writing about an aged and dying parent or remembering incidents from childhood and adolescence, Shapiro attends to the world in ways that are as deeply personal as they are recognizable and freshly social-both timeless and utterly of this particular moment.
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Alan Shapiro has published many books, including
Reel to Reel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A new collection of essays,
That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration, is also available this fall from the University of Chicago Press.
Content
- Intro
- 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 Thought
- Toward Language
- Stele
- Frieze
- Dog Heart
- Scat
- On the Greenway behind My Old House
- In the Hotel Room
- Present
- Three
- On the Beach
- Her Closet
- Dressing Table
- The Bedroom
- The Pig
- Heavy Snow
- Goodness and Mercy
- Sweetness and Night
- Accident
- Mother Palinode
- The Weeper
- The Last Outing
- Archimedes
- The Sibyl's Nursing Home
- Terminal Restlessness
- Enough
- Visitation
- Coda
- Death Hog
- Notes
