Reel to Reel (Phoenix Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022611063X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Fine Book of Poetry" according to Linda Johnsen. Award winning poet Alan Shapiro has produced another solid volume that deserves your attention. I enjoyed this book.
In ways few poets have done, he writes from a premodern, primal sense of wonder about our postmodern world.. Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro’s twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even the outer spaces of the cosmos itself. How did we get here? Why is there something rather than nothing? How do we live fully and lovingly as conscious creatures in an unconscious universe with no ultimate purpose or destination beyond returning to the abyss that spawned us? Shapiro brings his humor, imaginative intensity, characteristic syntactical energy, and generous heart to bear on these ultimate
“A book about continuity and endings—marked by gratitude for the connections and illusions that keep consciousness aloft, as well as attempts to imagine the end of consciousness and the forces that both allow for and erode all life. Shapiro’s vision of reality has grown to include the rich, imperfect images of reality we create, and as his poems have come to enact the intricate, reflexive vitality of such creation—even now, maybe especially now, as they increasingly contemplate the total loss of vitality.&rdq