In 1944, Karl Jay Shapiro (1913 – 2000) was pulling in the big-bucks as a private in the U.S. Army (New Guinea) but unlike most of the khaki-clad Joes found in at least a ten mile radius, Shapiro had two volumes of poetry under his belt (Person Place and Thing
and “Place of Love”) in addition to the memory of having been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In this short interview, he explains what a poet’s concerns should be and offers some fine tips for younger poets to bare in mind.
A year latter, while he was still in uniform, Shapiro would be awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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