Robert B. Shaw Biography
Robert B. Shaw was born in 1947. He is a professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He writes frequently on modern and contemporary poetry, for instance on John Donne and George Herbert. He is currently writing a book on the history and use of blank verse.
His poems and articles appear frequently in American and British magazines.
His own books of poems include Below the Surface and Solving for X, which won him the Hollis Summers Poetry Pri
Why, I sometimes wonder, out of all
the spirited conceptions of my Maker,
am I the chosen one? Reprinted ceaselessly,
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The wormy apple tree
we chainsawed to a stump
is not content to be
a barren amputee.
...
She left. And still, he sat and wrote about
how he could not live with her nor without.
Hatred and love contended in his lyric.
Whichever won, the victory was Pyrrhic.
...
It will be recognizable: your neighborhood,
with of course some of the bigger trees
gone for pulp and the more upscale houses
sporting new riot-proof fencing which
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This tuber's dark protuberance aches to be
above ground, where there's so much more to see,
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