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Reel to reel

By Shapiro , Alan

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2014
ISBN
022611063X, 978-0-226-11063-9, 978-0-226-11077-6
DOI
10.7208/chicago/9780226110776.001.0001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
245 kB (251357 bytes)
Series
Phoenix poets
Pages
77\88
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Poetry.

Description

Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro’s twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even the outer spaces of the cosmos itself. In language richly nuanced yet accessible, these poems inhabit and explore fundamental questions of existence, such as time, mortality, consciousness, and matter. How did we get here? Why is there something rather than nothing? How do we live fully and lovingly as conscious creatures in an unconscious universe with no ultimate purpose or destination beyond returning to the abyss that spawned us? Shapiro brings his humor, imaginative intensity, characteristic syntactical energy, and generous heart to bear on these ultimate mysteries. In ways few poets have done, he writes from a premodern, primal sense of wonder about our postmodern world.

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