Woodstock, NY: overtop Press, 2002...

Woodstock, NY: overtop Press, 2002. 104 pp. $2495

Since his first attempt in the mid-1960s, David Shapiro has approach to be known as a persistent experimentalist whose formal music and lyricism perfection his philosophical intensity. In his early work, up to about 1973 Shapiro was repeatedly interested in discovering how the collaging of diverse linguistic ingredients from a wide variety of sources could enable fragments and passed on a criminals to resist conventional meaning-making. If this approach bore the stamp of Ashbery's The Tennis Court Oath, the piece of poetrys featured a distinctive ensemble of voices