Proceed to Check Out

Award-winning poet Alan Shapiro offers a new collection of poems reflecting on mortality and finitude.   Alan Shapiro’s fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out , is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious place in a world dominated by the ever-accelerating pace of technological innovation, political disruption, personal loss, and racial strife. These poems take on fundamental subjects—like the nature of time and consciousness and how or why w