Life Pig
96 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2016
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Life PigONE
The Hebrew Ouija Board
The Hiawatha Recitation
The Look
Trajan’s Column
Moon Landing, 1969
Ghost of the Old Arcade
Let Me Hear You
Thanks for Nothing
TWO
Vantage
The Killing
Low Tide
Green Thought
Toward Language
Stele
Frieze
Dog Heart
Scat
On the Greenway behind My Old House
In the Hotel Room
Present
THREE
On the Beach
Her Closet
Dressing Table
The Bedroom
The Pig
Heavy Snow
Goodness and Mercy
Sweetness and Night
Accident
Mother Palinode
The Weeper
The Last Outing
Archimedes
The Sibyl’s Nursing Home
Terminal Restlessness
Enough
Visitation
CODA
Death Hog
Notes
Review Quotes
Library Journal
"In deft, quiet language, National Book Award finalist Shapiro . . . recalls the past and how it sometimes hurts. . . . Capturing what many of his readers face, Shapiro . . . has his moment of triumph and honor."
Eavan Boland, author of A Woman Without a Country
“Shapiro’s wonderful and deft volume opens new possibilities for the public and private poem. From the ‘sugar high’ of an astronaut’s step on television, to the ‘sleep and terror’ of a lost decade of youth, to the wrenching deathbed images of a parent, this book has all the music of public elegy and all the intimacy of a private soliloquy. These moving and powerfully crafted poems make us participants, not spectators. They draw us into deeper understandings of our own losses and give us a language for what often seems beyond speech.”
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