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Respected poet teacher and critic Alan Shapiro continues his muchacclaimedexplorations of childhood family and marriage in Mixed Company. Revealing aworld troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality and withequal attention to historical detail and the poetics of everyday life from themythic past to the abrasive intimacies of the present Shapiro charts the manyways our social and sexual identities are formed threatened altered and forgood or ill preserved. Deeply felt and ambitious Mixed Company is anextraordinary book by one of the leading poets writing in America today.What draws us into Alan Shapiros Mixed Company is not a conspicuous felicityor any sort of bravura but the quiet undaunted way he goes after the truth ofhuman feeling and motive. . . . The poems grope and conjecture looking forunderstanding . . . but whatever may remain unsolved and insoluble the poemsare full of astonishing insights a rare articulateness and what another agecalled knowledge of the human heart. Richard Wilbur «
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