Song and Dance (Paperback)

Amazingly sensitive and tough-minded” (Tom Sleigh), the poems in Alan Shapiro’s seventh collection intimately describe the complicated feelings that attend the catastrophic loss of a loved one. In 1998, Shapiro’s brother, David, an actor on Broadway, was diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer. Song and Dance recounts the poet’s emotional journey through the last months of his brother’s life, exploring feelings too often ignored in official accounts of grief.