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The Courtesy

The Courtesy

Shapiro, Alan

Paperback

Series: Phoenix Poets

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0226750272
ISBN13: 9780226750279
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Oct 1 1983
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
In this, his first book, Alan Shapiro vividly recreates some of the more memorable and poignant moments from his Jewish-American childhood, and in the process reveals his compassionate interest in the forgotten, the alienated, and the infirm. The Courtesy is an intelligent, reflective examination of the poet's own psychological history.

The Courtesy is really an admirable book: it shows up the unreality of a lot of the other poetry one reads, dealing honestly and with that perversity which is a sign of thoughfulness, with the slight but heavy matter of our everyday defeats.-Michael Hoffman, Poetry Nation Review

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