Karl Jay Shapiro (10 November 1913, Baltimore, Maryland – 14 May 2000, New York City) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.


this volume contains all the poems that Shapiro wanted to preserve from his ten previous books of poetry, starting with "person, place and thing" (1942 and clondluding with "Adult Bookstore" (1976) along with a few new poems.

Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913, Baltimore, Maryland – May 14, 2000, New York City) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Karl Shapiro wrote poetry in the Pacific Theater while he served there during World War II. His collection V-Letter and Other Poems, written while Shapiro was stationed in New Guinea, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945, while Shapiro was still in the military.