Review Adam And Eve Adult Bookstore The Alphabet And Now, The Weather At Auden's Grave Auto Wreck The Back Boy-man Buick A Calder California Petrarchan The Cathedral Bells The Conscientious Objector The Crucifix In The Filing Cabinet A Cut Flower The Dirty Word The Dome Of Sunday Drug Store Essay On Chess The Figurehead The First Time The Fly Giantess Girls Fighting, Broadway Glass Poem Grant's Tomb Revisited Haircut Homewreck Hospital The Humanities Building I Am An Atheist Who Says His Prayers Impact The Intellectual The Interlude Israel The Leg Love For A Hand Manhole Covers Messias Mongolian Idiot My Grandmother Nebraska Necropolis The New Ring Nigger Office Love The Olive Tree The Pigeons Poet Poet In Residence Premises The Progress Of Faust Retirement A Room In Rome Scyros Solipsism The Spider Mums Statue Of Liberty The Synagogue The Tingling Back Tornado Warning Travelogue For Exiles The Twins University V-letter Vietnam Memorial Waitress Washington Cathedral The White Negress -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® From Publishers Weekly Scion of the Auden-Spender-MacNeice school of public poetry that came of age nearly half a century ago, Shapiro is a major American poet of a lost era who has been treated most unfairly by time and the whims of fashion. But the wonder and the value of this version of his selected poems, revised from the edition published a generation ago, are in its final but few, nearly perfect new poems. Here the poet-chronicler of World War II and postwar society in Americathat polished, elegant and smooth commentator on the hypocrisies, prejudices and delusions of our common lifebrings himself into our future with exact and telling descriptions of "Vietnam Memorial," "Retirement" and his elegy "At Auden's Grave." He rounds his own achievement. All the well-known Shapiro classics that precede these ultimate poems bleed their life and our history into their meaning. As for Auden's grave, Shapiro makes it into a symbol for the ce