Life Pig
Phoenix Poets
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نقد و بررسی
October 15, 2016
In deft, quiet language, National Book Award finalist Shapiro (Night of the Republic) recalls the past and how it sometimes hurts, with memories ranging from a Hebrew teacher compelling him to look at Holocaust photos to having to recite Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha in school (how can he measure up to the poem's implicit "triumph and/ ...honor"?). Shapiro travels to the distant past, too--a slumped figure on Trajan's column sums up the world's "machine-like slaughtering"--and present worries include aging parents. Even a lovely walk at low tide is tinged with momentary shadow (he's "thoughtless like a leper without a bell"), but Shapiro is more forthright than grim. VERDICT Capturing what many of his readers face, Shapiro finally has his moment of triumph and honor.
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