A Day's Portion

by Harvey Shapiro

"A fine, lucid, experienced poet....Harvey Shapiro belongs near the center of any galaxy of good poets..."--Harvard Book Review "Seasoned insight and tenacity of spirit...."--Publishers Weekly

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Harvey Shapiro (January 27, 1924 – January 7, 2013) was an American poet and editor of The New York Times. He wrote a dozen books of poetry from 1953 to 2006, writing in epigrammatic style about things in his everyday life. As an editor, he was always affiliated with The New York Times in some capacity, mainly in the magazine and book reviews, from 1957 to 2005.