Alan Shapiro



Alan Shapiro (born 1952) is an American poet and academic.

Shapiro is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of nine poetry books, including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and The Dead Alive and Busy.

Shapiro has also published two personal memoirs, Vigil and The Last Happy Occasion.

Awards

 * 2005 North Carolina Book Award, Tantalus In Love
 * 2012 National Book Award (Poetry), finalist, Night of the Republic
 * ???? National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, ????
 * ???? Los Angeles Book Prize, ????
 * ???? Kingsley Tufts Award, ????
 * ???? American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Publications

 * After the Digging. Elpenor Books, 1981.
 * The Courtesy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
 * Happy Hour. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
 * Covenant. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991
 * Mixed Company. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996''
 * The Dead Alive and Busy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000
 * Song and Dance. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002,
 * Tantalus in Love. 2005.

Non-fiction

 * In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the ethical imagination: Essays, 1980–1991. 1993.
 * Vigil. 1997.
 * The Last Happy Occasion. 1997.