After the Digging

by Alan Shapiro

After the Digging provides an exceptional look at the early work of acclaimed poet Alan Shapiro. His first collection of poems allows readers to realize his strong sense of historical narrative and gives them reference on how to read his later poems. Inspired by his time at Stanford in the late seventies, the book is divided into two parts: the first is a sequence on the Irish Famine in the mid-nineteenth century; the second, a series on demonic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226750418
• ISBN13: 9780226750415
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"