The shapes a bright container can contain! —Theodore Roethke Tiffany Fountain Look inside the ceramic frame—arabesques in blues and greens—at the festive scene of Italian cypressesclimbing a hill against rosy clouds,where a tall stone vase sits on the balustradeoverflowing with peonies(you can almost smell their deliciousscent as they flutter in the breeze).Peer into the mosaic pondpunctuated […]
Author: Daniel Shapiro
Daniel Shapiro is the author of three poetry collections: The Red Handkerchief and Other Poems (2014), Woman at the Cusp of Twilight (2016), and Child with a Swan’s Wings (2018), all published by Dos Madres Press. He is also the translator of Cipango, by Chilean poet Tomás Harris (Bucknell UP, 2010; starred review, Library Journal); Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists, by Mexican author Roberto Ransom (Swan Isle Press, 2018); and Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan, by scholar Araceli Tinajero (Escribana, 2018). Shapiro serves as Editor of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, and as a Distinguished Lecturer, in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures, at The City College of New York, CUNY.