Upbringing - Shapiro, Marian Kaplun

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Résumé :
This latest work of veteran poet Marian Kaplun Shapiro is titled Upbringing because it confronts and explores issues surrounding being a child and growing up. Many poems present a moment in time through the eyes of a child, showing the innocence and confusion of children maneuvering in an adult world. What is most unique is the presentation of ideas through a preponderance of visuals intermixed with words to create a new era of visual poetry. Sometimes the images carry the message; sometimes speech bubbles talk to each other. The combination creates poetic illustration with a lasting impact.

Biographie:
Having grown up in a housing project in The Bronx, Marian Kaplun Shapiro is delighted to be practicing as a psychologist from her home of?ce in Lexington, Massachusetts, looking out on woods, ?owers, birds, and unpolluted sky. She attended the then free Queens College, where she received her B.A. in English with a minor in music, and studied writing with Stanley Kunitz and Stephen Stepanchev. At 20 she married her astrophysicist husband and attended Harvard for a Masters in Teaching and English, studying poetry writing with Archibald MacLeish. Teaching, two children, teaching again and then a return to Harvard for a doctorate in Psychology, culminated in a private practice as a psychologist, which she still pursues. In her forties she returned to writing: ?rst, a professional book, next articles and chapters in psychology textbooks, and then a deep dive into poetry, resulting in approximately 450 publications, two books (At the Edge of the Cliff: poems; Plain View Press 2021 and Players In The Dream, Dreamers In The Play; Plain View Press 2007), and two chapbooks. Working with victims of violence, she recognized that in her heart she was a Quaker, and joined the Society of Friends, which holds an important place in her life and poetry. Now over 80, she is fortunate in loving and being loved by her adoring and adored husband, adult children, their spouses, and their ?ve kind, funny, smart, talented, delightful children. Life to her is one long experiment, and she is unendingly grateful that hers has turned out so amazingly well.