Respected poet, teacher, and critic Alan Shapiro continues his
much-acclaimed explorations of childhood, family, and marriage in
Mixed Company. Revealing a world troubled by difference while
struggling toward commonality, and with equal attention to
historical detail and the poetics of everyday life, from the mythic
past to the abrasive intimacies of the present, Shapiro charts the
many ways our social and sexual identities are formed, threatened,
altered, and, for good or ill, preserved. Deeply felt and
ambitious, Mixed Company is an extraordinary book by one of the
leading poets writing in America today. What draws us into Alan
Shapiro's Mixed Company is not a conspicuous felicity or any sort
of bravura, but the quiet, undaunted way he goes after the truth of
human feeling and motive. . . . The poems grope and conjecture,
looking for understanding . . . but whatever may remain unsolved
and insoluble, the poems are full of astonishing insights, a rare
articulateness, and what another age called 'knowledge of the human
heart.' --Richard Wilbur
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