Tantalus in Love Contributor(s): Shapiro, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618773649 ISBN-13: 9780618773640 Publisher: Ecco Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2006 Annotation: Alan Shapiro is at his most passionate in this collection. A work full of life, jealousy, lust, and romantic abandon, Tantalus in Love begins with the sorrow of a disintegrating marriage, with its anger and suspicion, its hurt and rage, but moves on to celebrate the resilience of love after loss and the awakening glory of an amorous middle age. Reinventing myth and symbol in lyrical portraits of astounding resonance, Shapiro's poems yearn with hesitant love, heated at renewal, fragile but intensified by past experience of love's evanescence and uncertainty. |
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.56" W x 8.18" L (0.29 lbs) 88 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Shapiro, Alan: - ALAN SHAPIRO is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a former recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles Book Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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