You Are The You by David Shapiro

You Are The YouWritings and Interviews on Poetry, Art, and the New York School   The volume fairly vibrates with erudition and esprit. In his prose, as in his poetry, Shapiro enchants.—Ange Mlinko, winner of the Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism The prose assembled in You Are The You, an invaluable complement to David’s poetry, is a master class in the aesthetics of the New York School and the Avant Garde in general.—from the Foreword by David Lehman “Poetry is magic after Rimbaud,” Shapiro writes at 17 in the prescient piece that opens the volume—then goes on in the works that follow to disseminate the magic. His bent is artistic and pluralistic; a sui generis mix of lightness and depth, of wide-minded, many-angled, improvisatory verve and great freshness of thought and language. Sympathetic insight into the aesthetic processes of others is his forte. He invokes William James: love discerns more than “blinding objectivity.” He relates the discontinuities of John Ashbery to the Uncert