The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late

by Karl Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow

Karl Shapiro, who won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1945, is an American poetic treasure and an acknowledged master of lyrical poetry whose subjects have ranged from commonplace occurrences to biting political commentary. To read Shapiro's work as it unfolds in "The Wild Card" will be to grasp the depth and breadth of a great poet's career and the many sides of his nature.

Includes foreword by Stanley Kunitz and an introduction by M.L. Rosenthal

191 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.