Sunday, May 6, 2007

Karl Shapiro

Poet Spotlight: Karl Shapiro

Shapiro’s beautiful use of imagery makes the ordinary extraordinary. His mastery of the English language is evident in his poems. He looks at the simple things that are often overlooked. I highly recommend the poem Auto Wreck, which is not, as far as I can tell, available online. A selection of his works can be found here.

Perhaps more on him later.

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