Title: In memory of an angel
Description: "Named after Alban Berg's famed violin concerto, In Memory of an Angel is the first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School maestro David Shapiro. Packed with erudition, pursuing art historical, architectural, and literary themes, the poems of In Memory of an Angel achieve a rare combination of lyrical abstraction and postmodern self-referentiality, rendered with Shapiro's understated virtuosity"--
Subjects: American poetry, Coma, Shamanism, Fiction, Patients, Teenage girls, Fiction, psychological, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Fiction, occult & supernatural, Literary, Visionary & Metaphysical, Psychological, Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Psychological, POETRY, American, General, Jewish poetry