Ocupation: Poet
Life: November 10, 1913 - May 14, 2000
Birthday: November 10
Death: May 14
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
source: Karl Jay Shapiro (1953). “Poems, 1940-1953”, New York : Random House
topic: Father, Giving, Body, Senselessness