Reel to Reel
88 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2014
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards
Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
One
Wherever My Dead Go When I’m Not Remembering Them
Reel to Reel
The Family Bed
Wave
The Gate
Aging Lovers
The Cave
Thought Experiment
On Thumbing through Smith’s Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation
Taung Child
Gravity
In Winter
Disaster Movies
Beach Towel
Law of Motion
Absolute Zero
You
Emissary
Dialogue
Two
Homeric Turns
Three
The Bridge
Politics
Angel
The Open Door
Grace
Spooky Action at a Distance
Phantom
Saint Christopher
Whatever Else They’re Singing
Scatter
Sun
The Not LordReview Quotes
Jonathan Farmer | Poetry
“A book about continuity and endings—marked by gratitude for the connections and illusions that keep consciousness aloft, as well as attempts to imagine the end of consciousness and the forces that both allow for and erode all life. . . . [Shapiro’s] vision of reality has grown to include the rich, imperfect images of reality we create, and as his poems have come to enact the intricate, reflexive vitality of such creation—even now, maybe especially now, as they increasingly contemplate the total loss of vitality.”
David Orr | New York Times
"Shapiro is a master of the middle tone (as well as most of the formal techniques in poetry’s capacious toolbox), and he probes the deeper places of the self with a skilled psychologist’s gentle persistence. A delicately disquieting collection."
Pulitzer Prize
Finalist
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