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Tantalus In Love Paperback – September 4, 2006

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Alan Shapiro is at his most passionate in this collection. A work full of life, jealousy, lust, and romantic abandon, Tantalus in Love begins with the sorrow of a disintegrating marriage, with its anger and suspicion, its hurt and rage, but moves on to celebrate the resilience of love after loss and the awakening glory of an amorous middle age. Reinventing myth and symbol in lyrical portraits of astounding resonance, Shapiro's poems yearn with hesitant love, heated at renewal, fragile but intensified by past experience of love's evanescence and uncertainty.

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"Poet Alan Shapiro again dazzles us with his linguistic layups." --Dannye Romine Powell Charlotte Observer —

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ALAN SHAPIRO is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a former recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles Book Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco; Reprint edition (September 4, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 88 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0618773649
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0618773640
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 2 - 4 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.99 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.24 x 8.5 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2016
    Shapiro's poetry is always wonderfully image-filled and evocative, and I love that he often plays with ancient Greek mythological figures and stories.
  • Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2006
    I must confess, I'm not much of a fan of confessional style poetry. Yet, Shapiro has consistently, to my mind, produced great collections in this style. In Song and Dance, he grappled with those big issues of love, life, and death alongside the smaller ones of how to retain personal memories of a sibling, qualify his own coming of age, and ultimately deal with the grief that accompanied his loss. When I read it, I found it an excellent collection of poems.

    So what of Tantalus in Love? Here Shapiro addresses the estrangement in his marriage, divorce, jealousy, and finally the possibility of finding love again and driving those old memories away. As a whole, it is ultimately a sort of quest that ends in his own personal redemption, with the demons of his past tragedies (loss of parents, siblings, and marriage) finally cast out.

    Once again, Shapiro has produced a fine collection of poems that present a coherent whole while remaining enjoyable and powerful on their own.
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