Burning Interiors David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics

by Fink, Thomas; Lease, Joseph R.

• ISBN13: 9780838641552
• ISBN10: 0838641555
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Table of Contents

The copy and the model : David Shapiro's After a lost original	p. 21
Architect / house of being	p. 31
"Not a bridge" : dialogue and disjunction as didacticism in the later poetry of David Shapiro	p. 47
David Shapiro : New Jersey as trope	p. 60
David Shapiro and Jasper Johns : ego in the egoless pie	p. 69
Shapiro's comedic poetics and its limits in Harrisburg mon amour, or Two boys on a bus	p. 88
Plays well with others : the collaborative poetry of David Shapiro	p. 98
Written and rewritten to order : the gift of generative possibility in the work of David Shapiro	p. 107
Shapiro's "A man holding an acoustic panel"	p. 117
Uncanny narrative in Shapiro's A burning interior	p. 123
Distorted figures : mannerist similes and the body in David Shapiro's poetry	p. 138
"For dust thou art" (for David Shapiro)	p. 152
House blown apart	p. 154
Afterword : the night sky and to David Shapiro	p. 163
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