Awards

• Long-listed for National Book Award for Poetry 2025 (United States)
• Short-listed for T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 (UK)

Overview

With appearances by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Chris Burden, Studs Terkel, Anthony Bourdain, Gene Kelly, and others, Shapero investigates themes of method acting, abstract expressionism, and the production and commodification of intense expression and raw interiority. She offers sly examinations of labor and housing markets. She interrogates the influence of artists’ material conditions on the work they produce and the culture they shape. With a cutting, sardonic voice, Shapero asks what it means to be a working artist under capitalism; which individuals are permitted earnest extensions of the self; and “whether being born is worth it.”

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Natalie Shapero is the author of the poetry collections Popular Longing (2021), Hard Child (2017), No Object (2013), and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The London Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Nation. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at UC Irvine.

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