Piro - American 1

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes’……続きを見る

Award-winning poet Alan Shapiro offers a new collection of poems reflecting on mortality and finitude. Alan Shapiro’s fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, is a kind of summing up, ……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecos……続きを見る

The Illiberal Imagination offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of howーand to what endーU.S. novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic inequality and ……続きを見る

Mary Shapiro explores the use of regional and ethnic dialects in the works of David Foster Wallace, not just as a device used to add realism to dialogue, but as a vehicle for important social commen……続きを見る

Poetry about placesーfrom a supermarket to a strip club to a suburban homeーfrom a poet who “seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart” (Chicago Tribune). In Night of the Republic, Ala……続きを見る

This collection is compiled from the unpublished poems of Karl Shapiro at the University of Texas in Austin and elsewhere.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……続きを見る

“In deft, quiet language,” the Pulitzer Prize finalist “recalls the past and how it sometimes hurts” in his latest poetry collection (Library Journal). Alan Shapiro’s newest book of poetry explores ……続きを見る

“Searing, hauntingly sad, often hilarious, these poems . . . reconnect the circuits of the soul.” ーMartha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translationーno……続きを見る

More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in……続きを見る