Song and Dance

The poems in Alan Shapiro's seventh collection, Song and Dance, intimately describe the complicated feelings that attend the catastrophic loss of a loved one. In 1998, Shapiro's brother, David, an actor on Broadway, was diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer. Song and Dance recounts the poet's emotional journey through the last months of his brother's life, exploring feelings too often ignored in official accounts of grief: horror, relief, impatience, exhaustion, exhilaration, fear, self-criticism, fulfillment.

Author: Alan Shapiro
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 02/12/2004
Pages: 59
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.28w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9780618382293