
Some Are Drowning
Reginald Shepherd(Author)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Will be published approx. on 6. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-8229-5547-4 (ISBN)
Description
This first collection of poems enacts the struggle of a young black gay man in his search for identity. Many voices haunt these poems: black and white, male and female, the oppressor's voice as well as the oppressed. The poet's aim, finally, is to rescue some portion of the drowned and the drowning.
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-5547-4 (9780822955474)
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Reginald Shepherd
Some Are Drowning
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08/2014
Penguin Random House South Africa
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Person
Reginald Shepherd (1963D2008) was the author of five previous books of poetry: Fata Morgana; Otherhood; Wrong; Angel, Interrupted; and Some Are Drowning. His work has been widely anthologized, and has appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry