Poems, 1940-1953

Uniform Title: Poems. Selections
Main Author: Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [1953]
Physical Description: 161 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Item Description: Adam and Eve -- Auto wreck -- Ballet mécanique -- The bed -- Birthday poem -- Blindmen -- Boy-man -- Buick -- A Calder -- Carte postale -- Christmas Eve: Australia -- The conscientious objector -- Construction -- The contraband -- Conscription camp -- A cut flower -- D.C. -- Death of Emma Goldman -- The dirty word -- The dome of Sunday -- Drug store -- Druid Hill Park -- Ego -- Elegy for a dead soldier -- Elegy for two banjos -- Elegy written on a frontporch -- Emporium -- Epitaph for John and Richard -- The figurehead -- Fireworks -- The fly -- F.O. Matthiessen: an anniversary -- Franklin -- Full moon: New Guinea -- Giantess -- Glass poem -- The glutton -- Going to school -- Guineapig -- The gun -- Haircut -- Hill at Parramatta -- Hollywood -- Homecoming -- Honkytonk -- Hospital -- The intellectual -- The interlude -- In the waxworks -- Israel -- Israfel -- Jefferson -- The leg -- Lord, I have seen too much -- Love for a hand -- Magician -- Melbourne -- Midnight show -- The minute -- Mongolian idiot -- My grandmother -- Necropolis -- The new ring -- Nigger -- Nostalgia -- October 1 -- The phenomenon -- Piano -- Poet -- The Potomac -- The progress of Faust -- Recapitulations -- Red Indian -- A robbery -- Satire: anxiety -- Scyros -- The second-best bed -- Six religious lyrics -- The snob -- The southerner -- Sydney Bridge -- The synagogue -- Terminal -- The tingling back -- To Evalyn for Christmas -- Travelogue for exiles -- Troop train -- The twins -- University -- V-letter -- The voyage -- Waitress -- Washington Cathedral.
Physical Description: 161 pages ; 24 cm.