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KARL SHAPIRO - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/17/1981 - HFSID 224662

Shapiro typed this letter in 1981 on his personalized stationery about a photo with which he was less than pleased Typed letter signed "Karl Shapiro". 7 ¼ x 10 ½, on Shapiro's personalized stationery. Woodland, California, May 17, 1981.

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KARL SHAPIRO
Shapiro typed this letter in 1981 on his personalized stationery about a photo with which he was less than pleased
Typed letter signed "Karl Shapiro". 7 ¼ x 10 ½, on Shapiro's personalized stationery. Woodland, California, May 17, 1981. Addressed to Patty Ann Sheffield. In full: "Dear Patty Ann Sheffield, I signed the poems but not the pictures. I'm not vain but I hate that photo. Looks like a sly pig. It was taken on the deck of a liner back in the early Sixties I think, just before sailing. Any other photo would be fine. Please forgive me. I know the photo was reproduced. Why not burn it? Gruntingly yours,".  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, otherwise in fine condition.
 

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