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Karl Shapiro and Company

Description: For readers of the poetry and prose of U.S. poet Karl Shapiro (1913-2000); for those interested in poetry from the 1940s to the present in England, Ireland, Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere--Larkin, (Stevie) Smith, Auden, Spender, Hughes (Langston and Ted), Eberhart, Bishop, Moore, Layton, Jarrell, Sitwell, et al.; for those with some affinity for formal as well as free verse and all the poetry in between; for LT folk who may teach or take classes in creative writing; for LT folk with books on prosody, poetics, verse, etc. For anyone who likes iconoclastic, independent poets like Shapiro, and for anyone who may have known Karl, and taken a class from him, or enjoyed his poetry, his criticism, or his handbook on prosody, written with Robert Beum. Do invite others; it's a big tent.

Members: ronigreen, charlottem, dawnpen, Eurydice, henkl, JNagarya, cheznomore, jburlinson, karenweyant, maxpalmer, Leah.Hannah, coreymesler, debweiss, HarvReviewer, wildbill, ostrom

Member library: 35,221 books

Most commonly shared books (weighted): Joseph Andrews and Shamela by Henry Fielding (4), Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground by Steve Stern (3), Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of… by Keith Abbott (3), The collected poems of A. E. Housman by A. E. Housman (6), Waking by Eva Figes (3), Light up the cave by Denise Levertov (3), Selected Letters (Moore, Marianne) by Marianne Moore (3), The life of Ezra Pound by Noel Stock (3), Selected Poems by Stephen Spender (3), American wits : an anthology of light verse by Various (3)

Created: Jan 6, 2008 by ostrom; Language: English