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				Biografie Karl Shapiro 
					 
				
		Karl Jay Shapiro (10 November 1913, Baltimore, Maryland – 14 May 2000, New York City) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. 
 
Works 
Poetry 
 
    * Adult Bookstore (1976) 
    * Auto Wreck (1942) 
    * Collected Poems, 1940-1977 (1978) 
    * Essay on Rime (1945) 
    * New and Selected Poems, 1940-1987 (1988) 
    * Person, Place, and Thing (1942) 
    * The Fly (1942) 
    * Place of Love (1943) 
    * Poems (1935) 
    * Poems 1940-1953 (1953) 
    * Poems of a Jew (1950) 
    * Poet: Volume I: The Younger Son (1988) 
    * Selected Poems (Random House, 1968) 
    * Selected Poems (Library of America, 2003), edited by John Updike. 
    * The Bourgeois Poet (1964) 
    * The Old Horsefly (1993) 
    * The Place of Love (1943) 
    * Trial of a Poet (1947) 
    * V-Letter and Other Poems (1945) 
    * White Haired Lover (1968) 
    * The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late (1998) 
    * Coda: Last Poems (2008) 
 
Autobiography 
 
    * Reports of My Death (1990) 
    * Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1988-1990) 
 
Essays 
 
    * The Poetry Wreck (1975) 
    * To Abolish children and Other Essays (1968) 
    * A Primer for Poets (1965) 
    * In Defense of Ignorance (1960) 
    * Randall Jarrell (1967) 
    * Start With the Sun: Studies in the Whitman Tradition, with James E. Miller, Jr., and Bernice Slote (1963). 
    * Prose Keys to Modern Poetry (1962). 
 
Fiction 
 
    * Edsel Dope (1971) 
					 
				 
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