Proceed to Check Out
Alan Shapiro
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Description
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 poems take on fundamental subjects--like the nature of time and consciousness and how or why we become who we are--but Shapiro presses them into becoming urgent and timely. Employing idiomatic range and formal variety, Shapiro's poems move through recurring dreams, the coercions of childhood, and the mysterious connections of mind and matter, pleasure and memory. They meet an abiding need to find empathy and understanding in even the most challenging places--amid disaffection, public discord, and estrangement. His grasp of contemporary life--in all its insidious violence and beauty--is distinct, comprehensive, and profound. Product Details
Price
$22.00
$20.46
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publish Date
March 25, 2022
Pages
104
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.4 X 0.5 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780226817545
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About the Author
Alan Shapiro has written many books of poetry and prose, most recently Against Translation, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration, and Reel to Reel, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Shapiro has won the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, among others, and has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his dog, Sammy.