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Edsel
"The uprising of Edsel Lazerow did not occur on his State Department sponsored tour of the literary-sexual world that lay beyond the iron curtain (though Edsel certainly tried)..."
308 pages, Hardcover
Published August 1, 1971
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Karl Shapiro
101 books9 followersPulitzer Prize-winning American poet, appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.
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February 14, 2011
I think of Karl Shapiro as a poet, one recommended by a young professor in Germany.
I think his poems are tough and sensitive and ahead of their time.
I had a hard time getting into EDSEL.
I tried but I wasn't connecting so I stopped.
I'll try again another time.
This might be Shapiro's only novel.
However, here is the beginning of one poem, same name to volume as to the poem itself:
Adult Bookstore
Round the green fountain thick with women
Abstract in the concrete, water trickling
Between their breasts, wetting their waits,
Girdled with wheat, pooling in the basin,
The walker pauses, shrugs, peregrinates
To the......
I think his poems are tough and sensitive and ahead of their time.
I had a hard time getting into EDSEL.
I tried but I wasn't connecting so I stopped.
I'll try again another time.
This might be Shapiro's only novel.
However, here is the beginning of one poem, same name to volume as to the poem itself:
Adult Bookstore
Round the green fountain thick with women
Abstract in the concrete, water trickling
Between their breasts, wetting their waits,
Girdled with wheat, pooling in the basin,
The walker pauses, shrugs, peregrinates
To the......
Displaying 1 of 1 review