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Reel to Reel
Finalist:Pulitzer Prize -Poetry (2015)
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: Mar 17th, 2014
- Pages: 88
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.56in - 0.31in - 0.27lb
- EAN: 9780226110639
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
Shapiro, Alan: - Alan Shapiro has written many books of poetry and prose, most recently Against Translation, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration, and Reel to Reel, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Shapiro has won the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, among others, and has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his dog, Sammy.
Praise for this book
"A book about continuity and endings--marked by gratitude for the connections and illusions that keep consciousness aloft, as well as attempts to imagine the end of consciousness and the forces that both allow for and erode all life. . . . [Shapiro's] vision of reality has grown to include the rich, imperfect images of reality we create, and as his poems have come to enact the intricate, reflexive vitality of such creation--even now, maybe especially now, as they increasingly contemplate the total loss of vitality."--Jonathan Farmer "Poetry"
"Shapiro is a master of the middle tone (as well as most of the formal techniques in poetry's capacious toolbox), and he probes the deeper places of the self with a skilled psychologist's gentle persistence. A delicately disquieting collection."--David Orr "New York Times"