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Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 356810-6
Karl Shapiro, who won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1945, is an American poetic treasure and an acknowledged master of lyrical poetry whose subjects have ranged from commonplace objects and occurrences to biting political commentary to open celebrations of the contradictions in humanity's moral nature. As his subjects have evolved, so has his style, developing and modulating into various forms, but always with an essential lyricism. To read Shapiro's work as it unfolds in The Wild Card will be to grasp the depth and breadth of a great poet's career and the many sides of his nature.
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Book Review from Publishers Weekly
"This selection reminds us that Karl Shapiro has for decades thought and felt honestly about poetry, history, society and family, and is a rewarding sampling of the work that thought has produced." -- Publishers Weekly
Title: The Wild Card : Selected Poems, Early and ...
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 356809-6
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 15411658-6
Seller: Twice-Loved Books, East Palestine, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ** SCARCE ** 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING ** VERY GOOD HARDCOVER BOOK ** VERY GOOD DUSTJACKET ** FORMER LIBRARY BOOK, OTHERWISE WOULD BE FINE/FINE ** CLEAN AND STAIN-FREE ** TEXT UNMARKED ** Published by the University of Illinois Press in 1998, 8vo, with 191 pages. NOTE: EX-LIBRARY BOOK, please expect library markings and indicia. However, there are very minimal library markings. The book was never circulated and very likely it has never even been read. If not for the minimal library markings the book and dustjacket would both be in Fine condition. The book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, very firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, torn, or missing. The corners have not been bumped. All pages are clean and stain-free, bright and white, and all text is crisp and legible. There is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or any other such markings in the text itself. The dustjacket is perfectly clean, stain-free, complete and intact, NOT price-clipped, has no tears, no edgewear, no wrinkles. Only library marking on the dustjacket is a barcode sticker at the top of the rear panel. Only markings in the book: library stamp on top exterior page edges and withdrawn stamp on the half-title page. No card pocket or due slips, etc. Five-star seller, buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. B34. Seller Inventory # 018846