Poet
Alan Shapiro
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I was the one dead inside the music—
my voice forever in the cave of it,
shaping the quick clay
About Alan Shapiro
Alan Shapiro published two books in January 2012: Broadway Baby, a novel, from Algonquin Books, and Night of the Republic, poetry, from Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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