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Song and Dance: Poems

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The poems in Alan Shapiro's seventh collection, Song and Dance, intimately describe the complicated feelings that attend the catastrophic loss of a loved one. In 1998, Shapiro's brother, David, an actor on Broadway, was diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer. Song and Dance recounts the poet's emotional journey through the last months of his brother's life, exploring feelings too often ignored in official accounts of grief: horror, relief, impatience, exhaustion, exhilaration, fear, self-criticism, fulfillment.

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Mariner Books

Release: February 12, 2004

ISBN: 0618382291

ISBN 13: 9780618382293

Song and Dance: Poems

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The poems in Alan Shapiro's seventh collection, Song and Dance, intimately describe the complicated feelings that attend the catastrophic loss of a loved one. In 1998, Shapiro's brother, David, an actor on Broadway, was diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer. Song and Dance recounts the poet's emotional journey through the last months of his brother's life, exploring feelings too often ignored in official accounts of grief: horror, relief, impatience, exhaustion, exhilaration, fear, self-criticism, fulfillment.

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Mariner Books

Release: February 12, 2004

ISBN: 0618382291

ISBN 13: 9780618382293

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