Covenant

by Alan Shapiro

Book Overview

"The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence. His poetry comes by its sad wisdom through its accomodations to human happenstance and estrangement. . . .In Covenant, sympathy grounds itself in worldly particulars, and subjectivity begets responsibilities. Hardnosed yet tenderly attentive, Shapiro's acute self-consciousness distills an exacting conscientiousness."--David...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226750450
• ISBN13: 9780226750453
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"