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  • Against Translation

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    "Searing, hauntingly sad, often hilarious, these poems . . . reconnect the circuits of the soul." —Martha C. Nussbaum, University of ChicagoWe often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss, in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth

    Essays on Poetry, Family, Youth, Identity, and Friendship

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    A book of essays by one of the most celebrated American poets of the last fifty years, "A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth" is part memoir and part literary exploration. In the autobiographical essays, Alan Shapiro tells of his Jewish childhood in Boston in the 1950s, narrates the events of his youth that made him pivot from aspiring to be a professional basketball player to wanting to write poetry, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Proceed to Check Out

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    Award-winning poet Alan Shapiro offers a new collection of poems reflecting on mortality and finitude.Alan Shapiro's fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious place in a world dominated by the ever-accelerating pace of technological innovation, political disruption, personal loss, and racial strife. These ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Pig

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    "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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Broadway Baby

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family—sure, maybe she’d do those things, too, but first and foremost there was her career. As a woman, she is both tormented and consoled by those dreams in her day-to-day existence with her family, including a short-tempered husband, a cranky mother, and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Complete Euripides

    Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays

    Edited by Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Reel to Reel

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    Series series Phoenix Poets
    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 richly nuanced yet accessible, these poems inhabit and explore fundamental questions of existence, such as time, mortality, ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Nine-Iron John

    A Tale About Men Who Play Golf

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    Jim Carlsons most vivid memories of childhood are of his estranged fathers obsession with parring the Savage. Located on the island of Caramus, the 458-yard, par 4, 16th hole at Wild Links has presumably never been parred. At age twenty-five, Jim sets off to Caramus. Over the course of this golfing weekend, his life is forever transformed. There is the beautiful Tina, who presents Jim with a ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written.In this book, Shapiro brings his characteristic warmth, humor, and many years as both poet and teacher to bear on questions surrounding two ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Night of the Republic

    Poems

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    Poetry about places—from a supermarket to a strip club to a suburban home—from a poet who "seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart" ( Chicago Tribune).In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America's public places—a gas station restroom, shoe store, convention hall, and race track, among others—and in stark Edward Hopper–like imagery reveals ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Venice in Las Vegas

    An American and European Auto-Socio-Biography, 1960s to 1980s

    by Alan N. Shapiro ...
    Series Book 562 - Counterpoints
    “I left the USA several decades ago, yet I still love my homeland. I searched for dialog between Europe and America through the link between Venice and Las Vegas.”Through the mode of the auto-socio-biography, Shapiro‘s “Venice in Las Vegas” examines the cultural, political, and technological events, and reaction of the media, that shaped the period of the 1960s through the 1980s across the United ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • The Complete Euripides:Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays

    Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays

    Edited by Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD