blackbird spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

POETRY

ALAN SHAPIRO

Alan Shapiro is the author of nine volumes of poetry, the most recent of which are Tantalus in Love (2005) and Song and Dance (2002), both from Houghton Mifflin; two prizewinning memoirs, The Last Happy Occasion and Vigil, both published in 1997 by the University of Chicago; a work of criticism, In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination:  Essays, 1980-1991 (Northwestern University, 1993); and a translation of The Oresteia (Oxford University, 2004).

Shapiro has received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, among other honors. He currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.