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The unpredictability and grimness of death are conveyed well in Karl Shapiros poem, "Auto Wreck". Karl Jay Shapiro was born on November 10, 1913, in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Shapiro has been editor of two distinguished literary magazines, Poetry and The Prairie Schooner. ... Person, Place, and Thing, which includes the poem "Auto Wreck," appeared in 1942 and has widely praised ever since (Shapiro 27). ... Shapiro died in New York City on May 14, 2000 (Levine 53-56). ... In recent years, Shapiro has experimented with Whitmanesque free verse and with prose poems, through which he has sought what he calls a sense of identification with the universe (Levine 209).
Approximate Word count = 1036 Approximate Pages = 4.1 (250 words per page double spaced)
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