In Memory of an Angel

David Shapiro is a second-generation member of the New York School. His associations with Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg, Frank Lima and Joe Ceravolo, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, in short his personal connections to modernist and postmodernist art and artists make his work part of the continuing legacy of that group of New York artists.This is the first book of new writing from Shapiro in 15 years, and his place in the literary vanguard makes this is a major poetry book in 2017.David's work is very New York, fragmented and kaleidoscopic, erudite and abstract, lyrical and cosmopolitan-we will push for profiles and interviews in larger profile New York media.