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  • Proceed to Check Out

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Raman Shah

    by Michael Alan Shapiro ...
    In the year 1160 a young man named Raman travels to Morocco to join the Sect of Shah where he is to become their head horse trainer. Raman is introduced to the practice of meditating on a special "Magic" carpet whose intricate, colorful patterns induce the user into seeing ever changing patterns and scenes within their minds. In his interactions with other members of the sect he learns that the ... Read more

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  • Femeron

    by MICHAEL ALAN SHAPIRO ...
    Cars propelled with magnetism. Hologram images of past and present movie stars projected into the room for you to dance with and talk to.Waterless showers. All part of life in Femeron by the end of the century. This humorous scifi satire is a tale that takes the Battle of the Sexes to new heights. We are in the year 2090, the United States long ago allowed California and the other western states ... Read more

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  • Against Translation

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    "Searing, hauntingly sad, often hilarious, these poems . . . reconnect the circuits of the soul." —Martha C. Nussbaum, University of ChicagoWe often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss, in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written.In this book, Shapiro brings his characteristic warmth, humor, and many years as both poet and teacher to bear on questions surrounding two ... Read more

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  • Life Pig

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    "In deft, quiet language," the Pulitzer Prize finalist "recalls the past and how it sometimes hurts" in his latest poetry collection ( Library Journal).Alan Shapiro's newest book of poetry explores the intersection between private and public history, as well as individual life and the collective life of middle-class America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether writing about an aged ... Read more

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  • Night of the Republic

    Poems

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    Poetry about places—from a supermarket to a strip club to a suburban home—from a poet who "seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart" ( Chicago Tribune).In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America's public places—a gas station restroom, shoe store, convention hall, and race track, among others—and in stark Edward Hopper–like imagery reveals ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Aeschylus

    Volume I: The Oresteia

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth

    Essays on Poetry, Family, Youth, Identity, and Friendship

    by Alan Shapiro ...
    A book of essays by one of the most celebrated American poets of the last fifty years, "A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth" is part memoir and part literary exploration. In the autobiographical essays, Alan Shapiro tells of his Jewish childhood in Boston in the 1950s, narrates the events of his youth that made him pivot from aspiring to be a professional basketball player to wanting to write poetry, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Complete Euripides

    Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays

    by Euripides ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Collected here for the first time in the series are four major works ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Complete Aeschylus

    Volume I: The Oresteia

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Complete Euripides:Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

    Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

    by Peter Burian ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. This volume collects Euipides' Alcestis (translated by ... Read more

    $13.29 USD