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 War & Peace (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 ...
Aside (Karl Shapiro Poems)
Mail-day, and over the world in a thousand drag-nets The bundles of letters are dumped on the docks and beaches, And all ...
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 ...
University (Karl Shapiro Poems)
To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum. In mid-SeptemberThe entering boys, identified by hats,Wander in a maze ...
Troop Train (Karl Shapiro Poems)
It stops the town we come through. Workers raiseTheir oily arms in good salute and grin.Kids scream as at a ...