Download or read book The Last Happy Occasion written by Alan Shapiro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-10-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age story of an American Jew and aspiring writer in the '60s and '70s. In this memoir in six movements, Alan Shapiro recalls how poetry helped him make sense of his own and other people's lives.