After the Digging

Name: After the Digging
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ISBN: 9780226750415

ISBN-10: 0226750418

ISBN-13: 9780226750415

Edition: 1998

Authors: Alan Shapiro

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After the Digging provides an exceptional look at the early work of acclaimed poet Alan Shapiro. His first collection of poems allows readers to realize his strong sense of historical narrative and gives them reference on how to read his later poems. Inspired by his time at Stanford in the late seventies, the book is divided into two parts: the first is a sequence on the Irish Famine in the mid-nineteenth century; the second, a series on demonic possession in late seventeenth-century New England. These poems give voice to the pain and delusion of those from other periods and inevitably recall the many evils of our own century. "Powerful. . . . That a young poet can handle this subject so…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 46
Size: 0.61" wide x 1.09" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Ann Marie Stockis the director of the Film and Media Program and professor of Hispanic studies at the College of William and Mary.Alan Shapiro has published eleven books of poetry, most recently Night of the Republic, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Griffin Prize, and Old War, winner of the Ambassador Book Award. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.