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Stay Dead Format:Paperback Cyprin and her rival will*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlist* In Stay Dead, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy, and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism. The politics of labor and performance collide with comedy and tragedy in Natalie Shapero's fourth poetry collection, Stay Dead. Shapero's unflinching poems explore theories of acting, discourses of survival, privacy and publicity, power and punchlines, and the language of despair.