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The iconoclastic New York poet David Shapiro plumbs the ecstatic chaos of postmodern life in a voice that is simultaneously playful and lyrical, experimental and intimate. He will read from his landmark volume New and Selected Poems, demonstrating the breadth and depth of his writing from 1965 through the present day. The book is an impressive contribution, with a well-deserved place in our national letters. The Jewish Daily Forward remarks, “Reading these poems together in one volume is a pleasure and a gift. . . . One is in the presence of a genius, clearly.” Publishers Weekly calls his verse “spiky, demanding,” combining a “penchant for collage, Romantic lament, . . . seeming nonsense, and self-consciously postmodern self-description.” Shapiro is also an accomplished translator of both French and Spanish and a well-known art historian. For 30 years he collaborated with the renowned architect John Hejduk on masques and antimasques.
