Alan Shapiro Books
Alan Shapiro is an American poet and professor whose work often delves into the depths of human experience with penetrating honesty. Through both his poetry and personal memoirs, he explores complex relationships and universal themes with a keen eye for detail and evocative language. Shapiro masterfully captures the fragility of existence and the search for meaning in everyday moments, resonating with readers through his authenticity and profound insights.
Proceed to Check Out
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
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.
Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction
Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism
Flipper
Un romanzo di Dina Anastasio. Basato sulla sceneggiatura di Alan Shapiro. Basata sulla sceneggiatura di Arthur Weiss. Da una storia di Ricou Browning e Jack Cowden.
- 102 pages
- 4 hours of reading
