Selected Poetry Book V: 21St Century Poetry Cantos Epigrammes

By Paul Shapshak PhD

This book, titled Selected Poetry Book V: 21st Century Poetry Cantos Epigrammes, is the fifth poetry book in a series of selected poetries by Paul Shapshak. The ten sections in this book include, as previously, pastoral, mythology, cosmology, theology, history, social, economics, cybernetic fables, virtual allegories, and the arts. Overtones perhaps exist of time, day, evening star collisions, gravitational lenses, quantum bounds, and baryon fields. Neutrinos traverse universes, bubbles, and allegories. Song wisps among daydreams, afternoons, overheard, meadows, and glens. Offerings, such as this, may accede repose, rest, composure, calm, and contemplation on the plane of things.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546244189

Paul Shapshak PhD

About the Poet Paul Shapshak, PhD, attended the public High School of Music and Art in Harlem (New York City). He studied music, conducting, violin, and piano. The entire class of 500 students received high school graduation diplomas from Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. He attended the Henry Street Settlement Music School, Lower East Side (NYC), with a full scholarship, studying violin and chamber music (teacher, H. Kwalwasser), orchestra (conductor, P. Vermel), conducting, music history, harmony, musicology, and counterpoint composition. He previously studied harmony with H. Hyams and conducting with A. Hartman. He won several annual Eisteddfod competitions for piano and violin. His first piano teacher was E. Klempmann. His first violin teacher was Nikolai Nikolaev, who had played violin in the Tsar’s orchestra in the early 1900’s, and was a classic teacher, tea samovar, jam and tall glass with metal holder, as well as staff to keep time. Upon arriving in NYC, a family friend, the Irish poet-playwright, Brendan Behan, walked him to the subway station, several mornings, until he got the hang of safely getting to school. He participated in orchestra and chamber music concerts at the High School of Music and Art, the Henry Street Settlement Music School, radio WNYC, and played the Mozart fifth violin concerto at the Lower East Side Park Amphitheatre in 1958. In High School senior year, he built a Wilson Cloud Chamber and photographed particles traversing an internal electric field. He started the high school math club, wrote its constitution, and helped set up a tutoring schedule for classmates. In the summer of 1956, he studied French at the public Stuyvesant High School. In the summer of 1957 he worked at Mangel Stores Corporation as a book-keeper and bank liaison. In 1958, he received a summer-school full scholarship to study mathematics at the Rhodes School (NYC). In the summer of 1959, he turned down an invitation from a Wall Street firm to work for them, since he received a full scholarship to participate in the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. At the Aspen Music Festival, he studied violin with Szymon Goldberg (World War II concentration camp survivor with numbered tattoo), chamber music with Ralph Hillier (Juilliard String Quartet), orchestra (Salomon conductor), as well as musicology. With full scholarships, he attended Harvard College (BA), New York University Medical Center, NYU Washington Square Graduate School, and then Princeton University Graduate School (PhD). During the summers of 1962 and 1963 he worked at the Massachusets General Hospital, in the Biochemistry laboratory. While attending Harvard College, he worked at the Waltham Massachusetts State Mental Hospital for Children for a semester, under the auspices of Harvard Phillips Brooks House and the State Psychiatry Board. [His weekly job with several children at the Waltham State Mental Hospital was to discuss and teach Art – drawing and painting and as a potential therapy, he promoted non-objective art forms. He was on the college fencing team and had previously studied fencing at the Montecelli Fencing School. He was invited to be producer of the play, ‘Bodas de Sangre’ by the Spanish playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca, which was staged at the Harvard President Pusey Student Theatre. During 1962-1963, he co-chaired a Ford Foundation Cultural Grant Committee at Kirkland House. Guest speakers included Shelley Winters, William Golding, Yalta Menuhin, Paul Doktor, and Jao Martins. His courses included an English literature survey course taught by Professor William Alfred and a course on molecular biology taught by Professors James Watson, Sir Francis Crick, and Sidney Brenner. In his senior year 1963 departmental exam, he predicted that neutrinos have mass. He played violin and viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Bach Society Orchestra, Cambridge chamber music groups, and also conducted chamber music groups at Kirkland House, as well as open-air concerts at exam-time on the steps at Widener Library. In 1962, playwright Arthur Miller, a family friend, reviewed with him what his career choice would be. He became a Resident Fellow at Princeton University graduate school, attended math meetings (headed by Gilbert Baumslag) at the Institute for Advanced Study, and once ran into Kurt Gödel. He is ever thankful for the many gifted fellow-students, colleagues, teachers, and friends.

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/04/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-4419-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-4418-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018906422

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Contents

PART I.     Pastoral

Canto 225

Epigramme 311

Canto 226

Canto 227

Epigramme 312

Epigramme 313

Epigramme 314

Canto 228

Canto 229

Epigramme 315

Epigramme 316

Epigramme 317

Canzonieri

Canzonieri

PART II.    Mythology

Epigramme 318

Canto 230

Canto 231

Epigramme 319

Canto 232

Epigramme 320

PART III.   Cosmology

Canto 233

Epigramme 321

Canto 234

Epigramme 322

Canto 235

Canto 236

Epigramme 323

Epigramme 324

Epigramme 325

Canto 237

Canto 238

Canto 239

Canto 240

Canto 241

Canto 242

Epigramme 326

PART IV.   Theology

Canto CCXII

Epigramme 327

Canto 242

Epigramme 328

Canto 243

Epigramme 329

Epigramme 330

Epigramme 331

Canto 244

Canto 245

Epigramme 332

Canto 246

Epigramme 333

Epigramme 334 a

Epigramme 334 b

Epigramme 335

Epigramme 336

Epigramme

Epigramme 338

Epigramme 339

Epigramme 340

Epigramme 341

Canto 247

Epigramme 342

Epigramme 343

Canto 248

PART V.   History

Canto 249

Canto 250

Unnumbered Epigramme

Unnumbered Canto

Epigramme 344

Epigramme 345

Canto 251

Epigramme 346

Epigramme 347

Canto 252

Canto 253

Epigramme 348

Epigramme 349

Canto 254

Canto 255

Epigramme paradigm

Epigramme 350

Epigrammaton

Epigramme 351

Epigramme 352

Epigramme 353

Epigramme 354

Canto

Epigramme 355

Epigramme 356

Epigramme 357

Canto 256

PART VI.   Social

Canto 257

Canto 258

Canto 259

Epigramme 358

Epigramme 359

Epigramme 360

Epigramme 361

Epigramme 362

Canto 260

Canto 261

PART VII.  Economics

Canto 262

Canto 263

Canto 264

Canto 265

Epigramme 363

Canto 266

PART VIII. Cybernetic Fables

Epigramme 364

Canto 267

Canto 268

Epigramme 365

Canto 269

Canto 270

Epigramme CXVIII

Canto 271

Canto 272

PART IX.   Virtual Allegories

Satyre Y

Canto 290

Canto 273

Canto 274

Epigramme 366

Canto 275

Epigramme 367a

Epigramme 367b

Epigramme 368

Epigramme 369

Epigramme 370

Epigramme 371

Epigramme 372

Canto 276

Canto 277

Epigrammes

Epigramme