Shapiro, Harvey

A native of Chicago and a graduate of Yale and Columbia Universities, HARVEY SHAPIRO is the author of six books of poetry, including Battle Report (Wesleyan, 1966) and This World (Wesleyan, 1971) and has taught poetry workshops at both his alma maters. For eight years, he war the editor of the New York Times Book Review and is now deputy editor of the New York Time Magazine and Times literary critic.