Coda

by Shapiro, Karl Jay

• ISBN13: 9781933896212
• ISBN10: 1933896213
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Texas Review Pr

Summary

"This collection is compiled from the unpublished poems of Karl Shapiro at the University of Texas in Austin and elsewhere. They are largely as Shapiro left them, in a desk drawer in his apartment in uptown Manhattan."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Love Poems
The Dinner Party	p. 1
Waiting for Takeoff	p. 2
Moving In	p. 3
Homework	p. 5
Interior	p. 6
German	p. 7
Sea Dance	p. 8
Letter-Poem	p. 9
A Kind of Gift	p. 11
A Thank-You	p. 13
Poems Like Flowers	p. 14
The Meaning	p. 15
"I'll Get Back to You"	p. 16
Spate	p. 17
An Exorcism	p. 18
Archaeology	p. 19
God	p. 20
Proposition	p. 21
Lost and Found	p. 22
The Bestower	p. 23
Total Immersion	p. 24
Torso	p. 25
Torso Fetish	p. 26
The Legs	p. 28
The Walk-Through	p. 29
Talisman	p. 30
No Doubt	p. 31
The Spear	p. 32
Rights	p. 33
Rose Poems
Late Bloomer	p. 36
Hothouse Flower	p. 37
Harvest	p. 38
Prepositions	p. 39
Vase of Dead Roses	p. 40
Various Poems
The Day That Painting Died	p. 42
The Camera	p. 43
Ballpoint Pens	p. 44
The Sacred Blue	p. 45
Landscape	p. 46
I Declare Peace	p. 47
The Soldier	p. 48
After the Surrender	p. 49
Trajectory	p. 50
Feminist Poem	p. 51
Proverbs	p. 52
The Tenses	p. 53
Second Opinion	p. 54
An Apology to a Bulldog	p. 55
Karl Shapiro	p. 56
Bar Mitzvah	p. 57
The Jewish Problem	p. 59
Ubi Sunt	p. 61
Twelve Maledictions	p. 64
Again, for Sophie	p. 68
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