Vigil

by Alan Shapiro

Book Overview

The New York Times Book Review praised Alan Shapiro's The Last Happy Occasion as a "touching and intelligent, emotionally satisfying and elegant testimony to the power of poetry to instruct, heal and inspire." Vigi emerges from the final chapter of that book, "Sittin' in a Funeral Place," a powerful essay about Shapiro's sister Beth, her struggle with breast cancer, and the limitations of poetry in confronting the untransformable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226750345
• ISBN13: 9780226750347
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"