Conscription Camp (Karl Shapiro Poems)
Your landscape sickens with a dry diseaseEven in May, Virginia, and your sweet pinesLike Frenchmen runted in a hundred warsAre ...
Karl Shapiro Poems on Man (6 Poems)
The Intellectual (Karl Shapiro Poems)
What should the wars do with these jigging fools?The man behind the book may not be man,His own man or ...
The Fly (Karl Shapiro Poems)
O hideous little bat, the size of snot,With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,To populate the stinking cat you walkThe promontory ...
The Dome Of Sunday (Karl Shapiro Poems)
With focus sharp as Flemish-painted faceIn film of varnish brightly fixedAnd through a polished hand-lens deeply seen,Sunday at noon through ...
The Conscientious Objector (Karl Shapiro Poems)
The gates clanged and they walked you into jailMore tense than felons but relieved to findThe hostile world shut out, ...
The Alphabet (Karl Shapiro Poems)
The letters of the Jews as strict as flamesOr little terrible flowers leanStubbornly upwards through the perfect ages,Singing through solid ...