Research Catalog

Title

Old war / Alan Shapiro.

Author

Shapiro, Alan, 1952-

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

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Details

Description

89 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The poems in Old War, Shapiro's ninth and most innovative collection, were written under the double aspect of love and fear, of hope that comes with any fresh start and the sense that history will eventually undo or destroy whatever we struggle to make. Through an impressive variety of forms and styles, from first-person lyrics to dramatic monologues spoken by characters ranging from a country and western singer to a Jewish comic doing standup in heaven, they cast brilliant light on the nature of art, love, and family in a world defined by brutality, deception, and instability."--BOOK JACKET.

Note

• "Winner of the Kingsley Tufts award"--Jacket.

Contents

Old War -- Bower -- Harvest -- Egg Rolls -- Prayer for a New Home -- People Get Ready -- Dog and Owner -- Breaking News -- News Conference -- Soothsayers -- Last Wedding Attended by the Gods -- We -- Suspension Bridge -- Cold -- Day -- Before -- Luck -- Easy Street -- Some -- Night -- After -- How -- Mist -- Just -- Black -- Listen -- Late -- Time Piece -- Watch -- Night Bloom -- Falling -- Where -- Heat -- Clear -- Now -- from The Book of Last Thoughts -- Passenger -- Narcissist -- Country-Western Singer -- I -- Brawler -- Skateboarder -- Runner -- Transcendentalist -- Dentist -- Brother -- Family Man -- Handler -- Mayor -- Language -- Outfielder -- Poet -- Open-Mike Night in Heaven.

ISBN

• 9780618452439
• 0618452435

LCCN

• 2007052823
• 40015233210

OCLC

• ocn179794654
• 179794654
• SCSB-5396535

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries