Description: "For me, Shapiro is the American urban poet: not only because he is a master of the sketch --a Brooklyn backyard in a line, the grain of a New York day in a phrase--but because he is the voice of my own muteness, the voice . . . of the inward whirlpool. He writes on the lining of our lungs, breathing for us"--Cynthia Ozick "Harvey Shapiro's voice is unmistakably of the city yet by virtue of the intensity of his reaction to the city, in his seeking, holding, loving, and longing and bitterness, he distinguishes himself from the chaos often with lyrical poignancy, elsewhere with sardonic wit."--David Ignatow

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