Mixed Company (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226750316)

Respected poet, teacher, and critic Alan Shapiro continues his much-acclaimed explorations of childhood, family, and marriage in Mixed Company. Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, and with equal attention to historical detail and the poetics of everyday life, from the mythic past to the abrasive intimacies of the present, Shapiro charts the many ways our social and sexual identities are formed, threatened, altered, and, for good or ill, preserved. Deeply felt and ambitious, Mixed Company is an extraordinary book by one of the leading poets writing in America today.

"What draws us into Alan Shapiro's Mixed Company is not a conspicuous felicity or any sort of bravura, but the quiet, undaunted way he goes after the truth of human feeling and motive. . . . The poems grope and conjecture, looking for understanding . . . but whatever may remain unsolved and insoluble, the poems are full of astonishing insights, a rare articulateness, and what another age called 'knowledge of the human heart.'" -Richard Wilbur


Author: Alan Shapiro
ISBN-10: 0226750310
ISBN-13: 9780226750316
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1996
Pages: 90
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.32w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/1996 pg. 75
Library Journal 03/01/1996