Alan Shapiro
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(b. 1952)
| 1981 | After the Digging. Shapiro's first collection challenges the predominant free verse of most contemporary American poetry with formal verse narratives, one devoted to the Irish potato famine, the other to seventeenth-century American Puritans. The next collections by the Boston-born poet who became a professor of English at the University of North Carolina--The Courtesy (1983) and The Happy Hour (1987)--deal with contemporary problems of family and spiritual values. |
| 1996 | The Last Happy Occasion. The poet produces the first volume of his acclaimed memoirs, treating his youth and development as a writer. It would be followed by Vigil (1997), recounting his relationship with his sister before her death from breast cancer. |
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