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Karl Shapiro
Karl Shapiro (1913 - 2000 / Maryland / United States)
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Karl Shapiro attended the University of Virginia before World War II, and immortalized it in a scathing poem called "University," which noted that "to .. more >>
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  "Its quick silver bell beating, beating
And down the dark one ruby flare
Pulsing out red light like an artery,"
Karl Shapiro (b. 1913), U.S. poet, critic. Auto Wreck (l. 1-3). . . New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986 [Karl Shapiro]. (1987) University of Chicago Press.
 
  "But this invites the occult mind,
Cancels our physics with a sneer,
And spatters all we knew of denouement
Across the expedient and wicked stones."
Karl Shapiro (b. 1913), U.S. poet, critic. Auto Wreck (l. 35-38). . . New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986 [Karl Shapiro]. (1987) University of Chicago Press.

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