Arts and Humanities
Arts and HumanitiesGrantees
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Alan Shapiro
To write The Dead Alive and Busy, a book of poems dealing with contemporary experiences of sickness, love, and loss, referring continually to the mythic and literary worlds of cultures in which death was once viewed as an intimate part of daily life. The poems explore the complicated feelings we experience—horror, relief, impatience, exhaustion, exhilaration, projection, fear, self-criticism, and a sense of fulfillment—in the presence of the dying. Chapel Hill, NC | $50,000 |
