The Poet's Prologue; Karl Shapiro, an Outsider Looking Inward From: The Washington Post | Date: December 9, 1988| Author: | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

THE YOUNGER SON:

The Youth and War Years of a Distinguished American Poet

By Karl Shapiro

Algonquin. 287 pp. $17.95

Karl Shapiro was 21 when his first book of poetry was printed, as a favor to his uncle, by a publisher of medical textbooks. Though few of its 200 copies were sold, the 64-page volume received at least one favorable notice; it was praised in a Baltimore weekly by a pseudonymous critic who was in fact the young poet himself. The 75-year-old poet is still reviewing the younger one.

"The world thinks that what you do is what you are," notes Shapiro, who writes poetry and is ...

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