GREGG SHAPIRO: 77

This second collection of poems by Gregg Shapiro delve into the memory and meaning of the 1970s. "Gregg Shapiro proves himself the Cavafy of Chicago.” Richard McCann... It isn’t often that the spirit of the music and the gift of the muse combine, but they certainly do as Gregg Shapiro “opens the box marked 1971” and takes us on a hard-rocking rollercoaster ride through his formative years as both a rock fan and a poet.” Jim DeRogatis ... “Gregg Shapiro’s poetry of coming of age in the “me decade” becomes the poetry of “us,” as his keen, compassionate eye recasts and recollects the 1970’s as a time of optimism and possibility." Denise Duhamel