Country Western Singer
Alan Shapiro
I used to feel like a new man
After the day’s first brew.
But then the new man I became
Would need a tall one too.
 About Alan Shapiro  Alan Shapiro is the author of eight books of poetry including Tantalus in Love (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). He has received the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles Times prize for poetry, among other honors. His collection of essays, The Last Happy Occasion (Chicago, 1996), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Also In VQR |
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