Some Are Drowning

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This poetry feels passionately truthful and his own, a gay young black man adrift between worlds, transcending the fragments of his life in song. * <i>Poetry Flash</i> * Shepherd's poems are reckless in the best sense. Passionate, brainy, and sad, they chronicle the mysteries, small and large, of emotional and intellectual life in language that's a weird amalgam of Latinate and Anglo-Saxon, richly original and distinctively American. Reading them is like listening to a good talker on a tear. He tells secrets that might turn out to be your own. * Chase Twichell *