Lauds & Nightsounds

by Harvey Shapiro

Poetry. A classic poetic text from 1978 is available again. Harvey Shapiro has written a multitude of poetry books, including The Eye; The Book and Other Poems; Mountain, Fire, Thornbush; Battle Report; This World and many more. He has conducted poetry workshops at Columbia University and at Yale, and was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1968. This collection brings together the poems of Lauds, first published in 1975, and the poems of Nightsound.

97 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

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.

Reviews

[Mills College Library]

811.54 S5294L 1975