Poems of a Jew

by Karl Shapiro

1958. 1st Printing. 70 pages. No dust jacket. Beige pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional cracking to hinges, binding is firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover

First published June 1, 1958

About the author

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

Reviews

[Andrew]

Some weird poems (including “The Confirmation,” an uncomfortable, T. S. Eliot-imitating description of masturbation) and some quite good ones.

[Sunny Stier-Wood · Rating 2 out of 5]

see "house on mango street": it was inaccessible. he was always referencing some philosopher no one's ever heard of, or freud. and one of the poems was racist.