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3 unusual facts about Karl Shapiro


Carl Shapiro

:For the Boston philanthropist, see Carl J. Shapiro; For the poet, see Karl Shapiro.

Duncan Phyfe

Karl Shapiro refers to the fly's leg as "the fine leg of a Duncan-Phyfe," in his poem "The Fly."

Karl Shapiro

His other works include Person, Place and Thing (1942), (with Ernst Lert) the libretto to Hugo Weisgall's opera The Tenor (1950), To Abolish Children (1968), and The Old Horsefly (1993).


New York Quarterly

The NYQ is widely known for featuring poems and/or interviews with writers such as Charles Bukowski, W. H. Auden, Anne Sexton, Ted Kooser, Franz Wright, Karl Shapiro, Macdonald Carey, Richard Eberhart, Michael McClure, and Lyn Lifshin.


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