KARL SHAPIRO - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/08/1979 - HFSID 206148
Sale Price $165.00
Reg. $200.00
KARL SHAPIRO
Shapiro handwrote this letter in 1979 on his personalized stationery to "a
treasure of a teacher"
Autograph letter signed "Karl Shapiro" in blue ink. 1 page, 7 ¼ x 10½
on Shapiro's personalized stationery. Davis, California, January 8, 1979.
Addressed to Gwen McGilheny. In full: "Dear Gwen McGilheny, What a
treasure of a teacher you must be! Sincerely," Shapiro (1913-2000)
was an American poet who published his first collection, Poems in 1935
and his last, The Wild Card, in 1998. He wrote several volumes of poetry
while serving in the United States Army Medical Corps, winning a Pulitzer
Prize for Essay on Rime in 1945 while in uniform and serving in the South
Pacific. Although he taught for most of his life, he condemned domination
of American poetry by tradition-bound academics. Termed "the bourgeois poet"
by a hostile critic, he embraced the term, using it as a title for his 1964
book. Before his death Shapiro completed two volumes of a projected 3-volume
autobiography. Lightly toned. Page has been folded in three and unfolded.
Otherwise in fine condition.
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