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Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon.Houston ChronicleShaperos poetics has realworld import for the way we use language to talk about messy things.VoltaThoughtprovoking and sardonically expressive, Shapero is a selfproclaimed hard childunafraid of directly addressing bleakness as she continually asks what it means to be human and to bring new life into the world. Hard Child is musical and argumentative, deadly serious yet tinged with selfparody, evoking the spirit of Plath while remaining entirely its own.From Hot StreakActually its ridiculous to opine on what kindof a dog I would be, were I ever a dog, as I dontcontain within me half enough life to powera dog. I WOULD BE A DEAD DOG, THATSWHAT KIND, ormaybe a mere industrial objectboasting a lowgrade animation, some odd beepor flicker, like a dryer or a bulb. So, sure, I couldbe a reluctant bulb, the only one still offering lightin an otherwise burntout fixture boltedhard to a row house porch. And all those moths,with no other place to die. Cant they murderthemselves on someone else?...Natalie Shapero has worked as a civil rights lawyer and is currently Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University. Her first poetry collection No Object was published in 2013, and her writing has appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, Poetry, and The Progressive. She lives in Massachusetts.
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