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Overview
The poems in Alan Shapiro's seventh collection, Song and Dance, intimately describe the complicated feelings that attend the catastrophic loss of a loved one. In 1998, Shapiro's brother, David, an actor on Broadway, was diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer. Song and Dance recounts the poet's emotional journey through the last months of his brother's life, exploring feelings too often ignored in official accounts of grief: horror, relief, impatience, exhaustion, exhilaration, fear, self-criticism, fulfillment.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780618382293
- ISBN-10: 0618382291
- Publisher: Ecco Press
- Publish Date: February 2004
- Dimensions: 8.56 x 6.28 x 0.24 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.24 pounds
- Page Count: 59
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