David Shapiro (poet)

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David Shapiro
Born (1947-01-02) January 2, 1947 (age 77)
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University (BA, PhD)
University of Cambridge (MA)

David Shapiro (born January 2, 1947) is an American

art historian
. He has written some twenty volumes of poetry, literary, and art criticism. He was first published at the age of thirteen, and his first book was published when he was eighteen.

Education and teaching

Shirley Temple Black, David Shapiro and John Hejduk
,
Prague, 3 September 1991
Memorial plaque in Prague with the Shapiro's poem "The Funeral of Jan Palach"

Born in

Kellett Fellowship, from which he holds an M.A. with honors.[3] Having previously taught at Columbia (in the Department of English and Comparative Literature), Princeton University, and Brooklyn College, Shapiro teaches poetry and literature at Cooper Union and is currently the William Paterson professor of art history at William Paterson University
.

He achieved brief notoriety during the

1968 student uprising at Columbia, when he was photographed sitting behind the desk of President Grayson L. Kirk wearing dark glasses and smoking a cigar; Shapiro later described the cigar as "horrible".[4][5]

Works

Shapiro's writing includes a monograph on John Ashbery, a book on Jim Dine’s paintings, a book on Piet Mondrian’s flower studies, and a book on Jasper Johns’ drawings. He has translated Rafael Alberti’s poems on Pablo Picasso, and the writings of the Sonia and Robert Delaunay.

His sonnets on the death of Socrates are the basis for Unwritten, a song cycle by Mohammed Fairouz.[6]

List of works

  • January: A Book of Poems–Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965
  • Poems From Deal–E P Dutton, 1969
  • An Anthology of New York Poets (co-editor)–Random House, 1970
  • A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel–E P Dutton, 1971 (National Book Award Nominee)
  • The Page Turner–Liveright, 1973
  • Lateness: A Book of Poems–Overlook/Viking, 1977
  • Introduction to John Ashbery’s Poetry–Columbia University Press, 1979
  • The Writings of Sonia and Robert Delaunay (co-translator)–Viking, 1979
  • Jim Dine–Abrams, 1981; Alecta Press (German edition and translation)
  • Lateness (Watercolors by Lucio Pozzi)–Generations Press, Paris, 1981
  • To An Idea–Overlook/Viking, 1984
  • Jasper Johns – Abrams, 1984
  • The Body's Words on JM Haessle, 1988
  • House (Blown Apart): A Book of Poems–Overlook/Viking, 1988
  • Mondrian: Flowers–Abrams, 1991
  • The Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin (co-translator)–Wake Forest, 1992
  • The Eight Names of Picasso (co-translator)–Gas Station Editions, 1992
  • After A Lost Original (etching by Terry Winters)–Solo Press, 1992
  • The Green Lake is Awake: The Selected Poems of Joseph Ceravolo (co-editor)–Coffee House Press, 1994
  • After A Lost Original–Overlook Press, 1994
  • Inventory: New & Selected Poems (editor) by Frank Lima-Hard Press, 1997
  • Body of Prayer (Shapiro,
    Derrida
    )–Cooper Union Press, 2001
  • A Burning Interior–Overlook Press, 2002
  • Rabbit Duck (Collaborative with Richard Hell) – Repair, 2005
  • New and Selected Poems (1965–2006)– Overlook Press, 2007
  • In Memory of an Angel
    ISBN 9780872867130[7]
  • Человек без книги (A Man Without a Book; Selected poems translated into Russian by Gali-Dana Zinger) - Literature without borders (Latvia), 2017.
    ISBN 9789934856891[8]

Personal life

Shapiro lives in Riverdale, The Bronx, New York City, with his wife and son.[3]

References

  1. ^ Klin, Richard. "David's Harp", January Magazine, July 2007. Accessed September 22, 2008. "Newark-raised, Shapiro has not shied away from his Garden State roots, (Poems from Deal, its title taken from a Jersey-shore town, came out in 1969) taking his place, along with Ginsberg and Williams, as bards of this much maligned state."
  2. ^ "Shapiro, David (Joel)". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b Parhizkar, Maryam. "David Shapiro ’68: Four Decades of Poems" Archived 2008-03-27 at the Wayback Machine, Columbia College Today, May/June 2007. Accessed May 4, 2008.
  4. ^ Staff. "Columbia Offers Laurels to a Band of Poets", The New York Times, September 23, 1990. Accessed September 22, 2008. "In the widely circulated photo, a young Mr. Shapiro - not yet a professor - is in the student-occupied office of the university President, Grayson Kirk. Wearing a pair of sunglasses, he is sitting comfortably on President Kirk's chair with his feet up, puffing away on one of the president's cigars. That cigar was horrible, Professor Shapiro told the dinner guests."
  5. ^ Morrow, Lance. "Lance Morrow: Why the flag is not a burning issue", CNN, March 29, 2000. Accessed September 22, 2000. "For one thing, flag burning (even though it occurs rarely) originated as one of the vivid, button-pushing ur-outrages committed during the great '60s deconstruction of American authority (which some boomers consider to be the beginning of the world) and engraved on the national memory by photographs of the time – merging with black-and-white shots of an Abbie Hoffman type giving the finger to "Amerika," or of the student radical Mark Rudd smirking and smoking a cigar with his feet up on the desk of the president of Columbia University."
  6. ^ Fischer, Shell (March 1, 2011), Poets, Composers Find Sanctuary, Poets & Writers, retrieved 2011-04-19
  7. ^ "In Memory of an Angel". City Lights Publishing. City Lights. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  8. ^ "A Man Without a Book". Literature Without Borders (Latvia). Retrieved 5 June 2018.

Sources

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