Author: Shapiro, Karl. (1913-2000). American Pulitzer Prize-Winning poet.
Title: Typed Poem "the Contraband" Signed by American Poet and Pulitzer Prize-Winner Karl Shapiro.
Description: Circa [1940s]. [1940s]. - Twelve lines of poetry typed on a 5-3/4 inch high by 5-3/8 inch wide sheet of cream-colored paper. Signed below the poem in blue ink "Karl Shapiro". Folded once for mailing. Very good.

The poem "Contraband" opens: "I dreamed I held a poem and knew / The capture of a living thing."

Karl Shapiro [1913-2000] attended the University of Virginia which he immortalized in a scathing poem called "The University", in which he noted that "to hurt the Negro and avoid the Jew is the curriculum". During World War II, while serving in the Pacific Theatre, Shapiro wrote the poems collected in "V-Letter and Other Poems" which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945. He was American Poet Laureate in 1946 and 1947. He was also awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1969. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; AMERICAN POETRY; TYPED POEM "THE CONTRABAND" SIGNED BY AMERICAN POET AND PULITZER PRIZE-WINNER KARL SHAPIRO; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; AMERICAN POET LAUREATE; BOLLINGEN PRIZE.

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