KARL SHAPIRO - INSCRIBED POEM SIGNED - HFSID 23062
Price: $160.00
KARL SHAPIRO
He inscribes and signs his scathing poem, "The Aunt."
Poem inscribed and signed: "To Dave Buram/best wishes,/Karl Shapiro"
in green ink, 8½x11. His 4-verse poem, The Aunt. American poet Karl
Shapiro (1913-2000) published his first collection, Poems in 1935, his
last, The Wild Card, in 1998. He wrote several volumes of poetry while
serving in the US Army Medical Corps during World War II, winning a Pulitzer
Prize for in 1945 for Essay on Rime while 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. Fine condition.
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