{"product_id":"that-self-forgetful-perfectly-useless-concentration-paperback","title":"That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Shapiro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than a gathering of essays, \u003ci\u003eThat Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration\u003c\/i\u003e is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this book, Shapiro brings his characteristic warmth, humor, and many years as both poet and teacher to bear on questions surrounding two preoccupations: the role of conventions-of literary and social norms-in how we fashion our identities on and off the page, and how suffering both requires and resists self-expression. He sketches affectionate portraits of his early teachers, revisits the deaths of his brother and sister, and examines poems that have helped him navigate troubled times. Integrating storytelling and literary analysis so seamlessly that art and life become extensions of each other, Shapiro embodies in his lively prose the very qualities he celebrates in the poems he loves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Brimming with wit and insight, this is a book for poets, students and scholars of poetry, teachers of literature, and everyone who cares about the literary arts and how they illuminate our personal and public lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Shapiro\u003c\/b\u003e has published many books, including \u003ci\u003eReel to Reel\u003c\/i\u003e, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A new collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003e Life Pig\u003c\/i\u003e, is also available this fall from the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178008920313,"sku":"9780226416953","price":52.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/c1FpRkwxTkZuL3NWQzhLSytRY01Fdz09.webp?v=1767719200","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/that-self-forgetful-perfectly-useless-concentration-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}