Who is Karl Shapiro
Karl ShapiroBorn(1913-11-10)November 10, 1913Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.DiedMay 14, 2000(2000-05-14) (aged 86)
New York City, New York, U.S.OccupationPoet, essayistAlma materUniversity of Virginia
Johns Hopkins UniversityNotable awards
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Karl Shapiro Poems
- The Olive Tree
Save for a lusterless honing-stone of moon
The sky stretches its flawless canopy
Blue as the blue silk of the Jewish flag
Over the valley and out to sea. ... - Going To School
What shall I teach in the vivid afternoon
With the sun warming the blackboard and a slip
Of cloud catching my eye?
Only the cones and sections of the moon. ... - The Dome Of Sunday
With focus sharp as Flemish-painted face
In film of varnish brightly fixed
And through a polished hand-lens deeply seen,
Sunday at noon through hyaline thin air ... - Troop Train
It stops the town we come through. Workers raise
Their oily arms in good salute and grin.
Kids scream as at a circus. Business men
Glance hopefully and go their measured way. ... - Love For A Hand
Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white,
And soon down ladders of reflected light
The sleepers climb in silence. Gradually
They separate on paths of long ago, ...
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- Rc_wisehack: ben shapiro should read--well have it read to him, slowly--karl polanyi... he might learn something, like the fact that markets destroy families, it doesn't need them.
- Bendestroysbot: ben shapiro destroys karl marx with mansplaining!!!!
- Jprapke: the intellectual by karl shapiro what should the wars do with these jigging fools? the man behind the book may not be man, his own man or the book’s or yet the time’s, but still be whole, deciding what he can in praise of politics or german rimes; but…
- Bendestroysbot: ben shapiro destroys karl marx with mansplaining!!!!
