A Burning Interior

Since his precocious first book, published when he was eighteen, award-winning David Shapiro's four previous volumes of poetry have been hailed by Kenneth Rexroth, Philip Lopate, and John Ashbery. A Burning Interior offers a restless poetry dense with stories but without mere confession or whimsical surface. It is a collection both universal and, at the same time, powerfully Jewish.

Shapiro's assured voice shows both range and virtuosity-included in this masterful collection are poems for Picasso, translations of Baudelaire and Rilke, amusing "found art poetry," moving elegies, rhymed translations, and dazzling prose poems.

Harold Bloom

David Shapiro's poetry manifests a never-resting mind.

David Shapiro's work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Partisan Review, and The Paris Review. He has received fellowships from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was nominated for the National Book Award.