The sights along the harbor
Subtitle: new and collected poems
By: Harvey Shapiro.
Series: Wesleyan poetry
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; Wesleyan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780819567956
Description: "Direct, informal, and richly evocative of his Jewish heritage and New York City home, Harvey Shapiro's poetry has occupied a unique place in American letters for over fifty years. This new collection brings together his latest work and much of his eleven previous collections, revealing the full arc of his carefully calibrated poetics. Shapiro engages themes including the immigrant experience, urban landmarks and lifestyles, family life, and war. The reader will see the more formal British-tinged cadences of his earlier work give way to the colloquial, personal nature of his later poems, and how Shapiro's candor and simplicity mark his work throughout the last five decades.

Bringing the city and its balance of despair and exuberance into stark relief, this poetry is intimately attuned both to life's quiet disappointments and to its unanticipated miracles."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.