Popular Longing by Natalie Shapero
The poems of Natalie Shapero's third collection, Popular Longing, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp, sardonic wit, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars, our inflated egos, our constant deference to presumed higher powers--be they romantic partners, employers, institutions, or gods. "Why even / look up, when all we'll see is people / looking down?" In a world where everyone has to answer to someone, it seems no one is equipped to disrupt the status quo, and how the most urgent topics of conversation can only be approached through refraction. By scrutinizing the mundane and all that is taken for granted, these poems arrive at much wider vistas, commenting on human sadness, memory, and mortality. Punchy, fearlessly ironic, and wickedly funny, Popular Longing articulates what it means to share a planet, for better or more often for worse, with other people.Natalie Shapero is a Professor of Poetic Practice at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Hard Child (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), her most recent poetry collection, was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Award. No Object (Saturnalia, 2013), her previous collection, won the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Shapero's poetry has been compared to stand-up comedy, with subtle set-ups and punchlines that build on and interact with one another. She is known for her dark, laconic, and occasionally self-deprecating humor. Her work has been featured in works by artist Ann Hamilton at the Park Avenue Armory, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and the Dell Medical School at UT Austin, as well as in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, and others. She resides in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781556595882 |
| ISBN 10 | 1556595883 |
| Title | Popular Longing |
| Author | Natalie Shapero |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Copper Canyon Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2021-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 69 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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