Main entry:

Shapiro, David, 1947-2024, author.

Title & Author:

After a lost original : a book of poems / David Shapiro.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Woodstock, New York. : The Overlook Press, 1994.

Description:

88 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
After a lost original -- The snow is alive -- Walter Benjamin: a lost poem -- In Germany -- After Asturiana -- You are tall and thin -- Prayer for my son -- To my son -- House of the secret -- For victims -- After -- A part for the part -- Broken objects, discarded landscape -- Dido to Aeneas -- Goofy plays second fiddle in the family quartet -- Sentences -- Lucidity -- You are the you -- A dream -- Untitled dreams -- "The dead will not praise you" -- A problem and its solution -- A note about the author -- House -- Voice -- A night of criticism -- The mistranslation -- A Polaroid as big as a tapestry -- Dreams of a young architect -- Friday's word -- God meets the angel -- The boss poem -- A lost poem -- Psalm -- For Borges: Spinoza -- An evening without criticism -- Problems of the moon -- The uncertainty -- A private embrace -- A note and poem by Joe Ceravolo in a dream -- A desert rose -- Multiple suns -- The seasons.

Summary:

David Shapiro's new volume of poetry, After a Lost Original, emerges as a radically experimental volume of intellectual, erotic, and philosophical intensity. Exhibiting Shapiro's well-known musical ability, the poems melodically change tempo to create a dark divertimento of his underlying themes of multiplicity and doubt.
In miraculously weaving together the disparate strands of fatherhood, family romance, religion and politics, the title poem ingeniously challenges the very nature of poetic style, translation and interpretation. "The Seasons" and "Broken Objects, Discarded Landscape" aleatory elegies to nature itself, turn New York School Impressionism into something increasingly severe.
The passionate sonnets out of Virgil, a rhymed poem that fanatically parodies Yeats's famous prayer to a daughter, collaborations with Shapiro's young son, villanelles, poems of science and other visionary poems that break the secular taboo of the epoch display Shapiro's classical pull over inherently divergent structures.
By invoking a myriad of fictional characters, philosophers, histories, figures, furies and forms, David Shapiro celebrates the pluralistic poetic without abandoning the unique sense of power and perspicacity which mark his independence from all schools. The alluring images and envisioned ideas prove, as Harold Bloom wrote, "Few contemporaries can temper the expression of pathos with as much elegance as Shapiro can."

ISBN:

0879515279
9780879515270
0879515287
9780879515287

Subject:

American poetry 20th century.
Poésie américaine 20e siècle.
American poetry.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 176859
Call No.: ID:98-B3094
Status: Available