{"product_id":"coda-karl-shapiro-9781680033243","title":"Coda: Last Poems","description":"This collection is compiled from the unpublished poems of Karl Shapiro at the University of Texas in Austin and elsewhere.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 uptown Manhattan. \u003cbr\u003e ... \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Proposition\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When we're old lovers, sitting in separate chairs \u003cbr\u003e Silently, will you think our love has faded \u003cbr\u003e Though we smile richly and are still unaided \u003cbr\u003e By doctors, accountants and presumptuous heirs? \u003cbr\u003e Though talk has frozen in geologic layers \u003cbr\u003e Of long alignment of the loved and hated \u003cbr\u003e And even our sexuality is jaded \u003cbr\u003e And we have settled all our private cares \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Including death, listen to me, adored, \u003cbr\u003e Words cannot fail us ever, no matter how \u003cbr\u003e The fates brighten their implements to prove \u003cbr\u003e That even gods and geniuses get bored \u003cbr\u003e With marriage, fucking and poetic love, \u003cbr\u003e Because, beloved, we call each other thou.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karl Shapiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1680033247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680033243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.28w x 0.24d","brand":"Karl Shapiro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076719440127,"sku":"9781680033243","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9b8cf2b3-2a65-485f-bfdc-57f3e72ee44c.jpg?v=1685466453","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coda-karl-shapiro-9781680033243","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}