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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Norman Shapiro, a flute, harp, and violoncello of cat song, tells the crafty musical tale of the cat from medieval France until today. Shapiro, at his artistic apogee, created an English masterpiece in his
Selected Lyrics of Théophile Gautier. But now with his
Fe-Lines, he has invented a new genre, as T. S. Eliot did with
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The world is his pen. Who knows where the next Everest awaits him?"--Willis Barnstone, author of
Moonbook and Sunbook"What makes a cat poem appealing to the reader? One of the salient features that I took from
Fe-Lines is the constant desire to finish a poem with a 'menschliche Weisheit' (human insight of wisdom) that activates the reader's imagination and keeps the reader inside the movement of the poem. A major contribution to the field of letters and world literature."--Rainer Schulte, author of
The Geography of Translation and Interpretation: Traveling between Languages“With beautiful illustrations and poems of every age and form, this book will please everyone (except dog lovers).”--
World Literature Today
