Otherhood
Poems
Published on 7. August 2014
108 pages
978-0-8229-7972-2 (ISBN)
Description
Written in the spaces between otherness and brotherhood, Otherhood combines traditional lyricism with experimentalism, passionate engagement with cold-eyed investigation, and personal details with a depersonalized distance to create a new poetic synthesis.
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02/2003
University of Pittsburgh Press
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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
- I
- Reasons for Living
- An Abbreviated History of Signs
- Kingdom: An Epithalamium
- Little Hands
- Flicker
- The Invention of Longitude
- Wing under Construction
- In the City of Elagabal
- II
- Periplus
- Blue One Lake
- Burnt from the Notebooks
- Syntax
- Polaroid
- Confluence
- Three Songs about Snow
- Amant Marine
- Les Semblables
- Roman Year
- III
- Homology
- Hygiene
- Apollo on What the Boy Gave
- Iconography Says:
- Apollo Steps in Daphne's Footprints
- A Little Bitter Commentary
- Wicker Man Marginalia
- Lighthouse Wreckage
- Photogram: Submerged Rocks
- Justice: An Ode
- Semantics at Four p.m.
- Transitional Objects
- Occurrences across the Chromatic Scale
- Frame
- Cygnus
- IV
- Littoral
- Interglacial
- Weather Comes from the West
- One of Their Gods
- Manifest
- Unravel
- The Practice of Goodbye
- Imaginary Elegy
- The Anania Butterfly
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
