Angel, Interrupted
Published on 30. July 2014
113 pages
978-0-8229-7973-9 (ISBN)
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Angel, Interupted is Reginald Shepherd's second poetry collection. The poems are lyrical, streetwise and contemporary, yet timeless, classically referential, and introspective.
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10/1996
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Reginald Shepherd (1963-2008) was a Black, gay poet who grew up in the Bronx and went on to receive two MFAs, one from Brown University and one from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He authored two collections of poetry criticism and six poetry collections, all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press: Red Clay Weather, Fata Morgana, Otherhood, Wrong, Angel, Interrupted, and Some Are Drowning. His work has been widely awarded and anthologized and has appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry and two Pushcart Prize anthologies. Shepherd received many awards and honors over his career, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- The Angel of Interruptions
- I
- Maritime
- Desire and the Slave Trade
- Crush
- Soul Music
- About the Body, Beauty
- Narcissus Learning the Words to This Song
- Eros in His Striped Blue Shirt
- The Other August
- Depth of Field
- Narcissus at the Adonis Theater
- Two Versions of Midsummer
- Trick of the Light
- My Brother the Rain
- Deep Water
- II
- A Man Named Troy
- "Orpheus and Eros" by George Platt Lynes
- He and Sleep Were Brothers
- Narcissus in Plato's Cave
- The Light Sieves What Escapes from Me
- Follow Me
- The Gods at Three A.M.
- The Moon with Its Cargo of Bullion
- Jouissance
- Black Ice on Green Dolphin Street
- Blue
- Drawing from Life
- Narcissus Was a Sad Boy, but a Heavenly
- Art and Illusion
- Tornado Watch
- Sam Cooke Would Be Sixty-One This Year
- Skin Trade
- Orion
- III
- A Plague for Kit Marlowe
- Narcissus as Gnostic
- "Belief in Antinoüs"
- A Little Knowledge
- Narcissus and the Namesake River
- Another Version of an Ocean
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Commentary
- Notes from Ariadne at Sea
- Odysseus Becalmed
- Narcissus on Echo Beach
- Loved
- Self-Portrait Surviving Spring
- West Willow
- Acknowledgments
