Child With A Swan's Wings

by Daniel Shapiro

Poetry. "The language of CHILD WITH A SWAN'S WINGS by Daniel Shapiro is downright sumptuous, the poems by turns joyful ('In the Field Between Us'), pensive, erudite, musical ('Rhymes'), sensual ('with these eyes, these ears, / these noses, these tongues, these hands'), visually playful, tender, ironic, devotional ('Ode to Jan Morris'), and altogether remarkable. The title poem is quite simply a virtuoso accomplishment, Shapiro's assured craftsmanship the safety net beneath the bravura. A fully realized companion to his earlier WOMAN AT THE CUSP OF TWILIGHT, CHILD WITH A SWAN'S WINGS is a must-be-read-aloud delight."--Maxine Silverman

108 pages, Paperback

Published April 8, 2018

About the author

Daniel Shapiro is a poet. His poems, prose, and translations have been published in various journals and anthologies. He has been awarded translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN. Shapiro is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures at The City College of New York, CUNY, where he serves as Editor of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas.

He is the author of poetry collections from Dos Madres Press: The Red Handkerchief and Other Poems (2014), Woman at the Cusp of Twilight (2016), and Child with a Swan's Wings (2018), Among the Crags of the Eyrie (2024).

He is the translator of Cipango, by Chilean poet Tomás Harris (2010); of Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists, by Mexican author Roberto Ransom (2017); and of Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan, by scholar Araceli Tinajero (2018).