Tantalus In Love

Alan Shapiro is at his most passionate in this collection. A work full of life, jealousy, lust, and romantic abandon, Tantalus in Love begins with the sorrow of a disintegrating marriage, with its anger and suspicion, its hurt and rage, but moves on to celebrate the resilience of love after loss and the awakening glory of an amorous middle age. Reinventing myth and symbol in lyrical portraits of astounding resonance, Shapiro''s poems yearn with hesitant love, heated at renewal, fragile but intensified by past experience of love''s evanescence and uncertainty.

About the author

ALAN SHAPIRO is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a former recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles Book Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Summary

Alan Shapiro is at his most passionate in this collection. A work full of life, jealousy, lust, and romantic abandon, Tantalus in Love begins with the sorrow of a disintegrating marriage, with its anger and suspicion, its hurt and rage, but moves on to celebrate the resilience of love after loss and the awakening glory of an amorous middle age. Reinventing myth and symbol in lyrical portraits of astounding resonance, Shapiro's poems yearn with hesitant love, heated at renewal, fragile but intensified by past experience of love's evanescence and uncertainty.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Shapiro
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2006
• EAN: 9780618773640
• ISBN: 978-0-618-77364-0
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY: American / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Divorce & Separation, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Dysfunctional Families, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Activities, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Marriage & Long Term Relationships, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Death, Grief, Bereavement, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, american;america;poetry;nonfiction;2005;2006;2007, nonfiction;american;america;poetry;2005;2006;2007