Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems Karl Shapiro

Poetry

• Poems (1935)
• Person, Place, and Thing (1942)
• The Place of Love (1943)
• V-Letter and Other Poems (1944)[1]
• Essay on Rime (1945)
• Trial of a Poet (1947)
• Poems of a Jew (1950)
• Poems 1940-1953 (1953)
• The Bourgeois Poet (1964)
• Selected Poems (Random House, 1968)
• White Haired Lover (1968)
• Adult Bookstore (1976)
• Collected Poems, 1940–1978 (1978)
• New and Selected Poems, 1940–1987 (1988)
• The Old Horsefly (1993)
• The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late (1998)
• Selected Poems (Library of America, 2003), edited by John Updike
• Coda: Last Poems (2008)

Memoir

• The Younger Son (1988)
• Reports of My Death (1990)

Essays

• The Poetry Wreck (1975)
• To Abolish Children and Other Essays (1968)
• A Primer for Poets (1965)
• In Defense of Ignorance (1960)
• Randall Jarrell (1967)
• Start With the Sun: Studies in the Whitman Tradition, with James E. Miller, Jr., and Bernice Slote (1963)
• Prose Keys to Modern Poetry (1962)

Novels

• Edsel (1971)

Secondary sources

• Lee Bartlett, Karl Shapiro: A Descriptive Bibliography 1933-1977 (New York: Garland, 1979)
• Gail Gloston, Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, and Randall Jarrell: The Image of the Poet in the Late 1940s (Thesis: Reed College, 1957)
• Charles F. Madden, Talks With Authors (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 1968)
• Hans Ostrom, "Karl Shapiro 1913-2000" (poem), in The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006 (Indianapolis, 2006)
• Joseph Reino, Karl Shapiro (New York: Twayne, 1981)
• Stephen Stepanchev, American Poetry Since 1945: A Critical Survey (1965)
• Melvin B. Tolson, Harlem Gallery (1965), with an introduction by Karl Shapiro
• Sue Walker, ed., Seriously Meeting Karl Shapiro (Mobile: Negative Capability Press, 1993)
• William White, Karl Shapiro: A Bibliography, with a note by Karl Shapiro (Detroit: Wayne State U. Press, 1960)