Four poet Karl Shapiro items include:

New York's Poetry World, edited by Henry Harrison. This is a rare complete single issue (62 pages) of the quarterly for the last quarter of 1939. Shapiro here offers two poems, "Self-History" and "To a Guinea Pig." This is, as the editor notes, "his first magazine appearance." As "Karl J. Shapiro." A little wear and soil to wrappers, otherwise a very good copy. See photo #2.  

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A longer article (13-pages--from an address) by former Poetry editor, Karl Shapiro called "Creative Glut" (on the creative writing industry in colleges and universities). This is an item of interest as Shapiro shows that he is still rankling over the awarding of the first Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound by the Library of Congress in 1948. Shapiro thought that Pound's Pisan Cantos, among other acts of treason, were driven by a hatred for Jews and America, etc. Shapiro was one of only two on the Library of Congress Committee to vote "no" on the Pound award. Ironically, he was himself to receive the Bollingen Prize in 1969. The even deeper irony here is that Shapiro published three poems by and two literary essays (September 1953) about the German writer Hans Egon Holthuser during his editorship of Poetry. Holthusen was a member of the German Nazi SS from as early as 1933, although there is litle doubt that Shapiro, a war veteran himself, and the author of a number of first-rate poems of WWII naval combat in the Pacific (and a Pulitzer Prize Winner for them in 1945), was unaware of Holthusen's past. In Poetry (Chicago) for October 1979.  

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Poetry (Chicago) for January 1979. This issue feartures one of the best shorter essays we have (5 pages) in review of Karl Shapiro's Collected Poems 1940-78. This by by Julian Moynahan. This is a first-rate assessment of Shapiro's life and works. The issue also includes, opening the issue, David Wagoner's first-rate poem, dedicated here to poet James Wright, "After Reading Too Many Poems, I Watch a Robin Taking a Bath." and Pamela White Hadas' "Plain Lisa." This last on Leonardo DaVinci's famous portrait of the Mona LIsa, from "Plain Lisa's" point of view.

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TriQuarterly (Northwestern) for Winter 1985. Shapiro here pens an autobiographical essay of his life in the 40s and World War II. It's called "From Scratchings, a Study of the Making of a Poet." 15 pages. See photo #3.