Fata Morgana
Poems
Published on 25. February 2007
113 pages
978-0-8229-9101-4 (ISBN)
Description
Fata Morgana mingles personal experience, history, mythology, politics, and natural science to explore the relationships of conception and perception, the self finding its way through a physical and social world not of its own making, but changing the world by its presence.
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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
- one
- Five Feelings for Orpheus
- Orpheus Plays the Bronx
- Persephone's Celestial Sphere
- How People Disappear
- For My Mother in Lieu of Mourning
- Suture
- Probably Eros
- Remainder's Edge
- Even This
- two
- Refrain
- Pear Tree, Bartlett, Quotations
- At Weep
- Things Waiting to Be Dangerous
- Boy, Allegorically Deployed
- Brightness Falls
- Mappa Mundi
- Cloud Chamber
- Waterfront
- You Also, Nightingale
- three
- Topograph
- Some Kind of Osiris
- Naturalism
- Kinds of Camouflage
- Respite
- Itinerary
- four
- Homeric Interim
- Turandot
- Narcissus to Echo
- Snowdrops and Summer Snowflakes, Drooping
- Eve's Awakening
- The Tendency of Dropped Objects to Fall
- Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
- Self-Portrait in the New World Order
- Dust
- My Desert
- While the Temptations Are Singing "I Wish It Would Rain"
- five
- Come This Far
- Thieves Like Us
- These Are the Things
- A Handful of Sand
- The Navigators
- With the Wind Blowing Through It
- Light Years
- Angles of Vision
- Somewhere Outside of Eden
- Hesitation Theory
- One of the Lesser Epics
- You, Therefore
- Acknowledgments
