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Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #3)
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Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #3) Hardcover - 2003

by Shapiro, Karl

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In this new selection, master literary craftsman John Updike provides a long-overdue reassessment of Karl Shapiro, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who has become one of the defining figures of the postwar period.

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Library of America. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.
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  • Title Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #3)
  • Author Shapiro, Karl
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition, F
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 197
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Library of America, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-01-27
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # K04I-00008
  • ISBN 9781931082341 / 1931082340
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.84 x 4.76 x 0.7 in (19.91 x 12.09 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 20th century, Shapiro, Karl Jay
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002032123
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.52

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/15/2003, Page 1269
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2003, Page 117

About the author

John Updike (1932-2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He is the author of more than sixty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the Howells Medal, among other honors.