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Fresh Air, Anthony Shadid and Harvey Shapiro

By: Terry Gross
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 Foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid and poet Harvey Shapiro on this edition of Fresh Air. Anthony Shadid is a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post. Before working for the Post, he was a correspondent at The Boston Globe's Washington bureau. He spent nine years with Associated Press, five of them in Cairo. He is the author of Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam. In the spring of 2002, he was shot by Israeli troops in Ramallah while covering a story for the Globe. He's currently reporting for the Post from Baghdad. Harvey Shapiro has compiled a new anthology of 120 poems, titled Poets of World War II. The poets include Kenneth Koch, James Dickey, Richard Hugo, Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell. Some of the poets have experienced combat; others have not. Shapiro is a decorated veteran of World War II; he flew 35 missions as an Air Force radio gunner. (Broadcast Date: April 3, 2003)(P) and ©2003 WHYY-FM
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