Some Are Drowning
Published on 12. August 2014
88 pages
978-0-8229-7974-6 (ISBN)
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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.
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Reginald Shepherd
Some Are Drowning
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01/1995
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
- The Difficult Music
- The New World
- Crossing Cocytus
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Slaves
- Paradise
- Mine
- Provisional
- Brotherhood
- Black Money
- The Lucky One
- Sappho's Fragment Thirty-One Revised
- Two or Three Things I Know About Him
- Shipbuilding
- Popular Beauty
- L'Enlèvement d'Amymoné
- II
- The Friend
- Clair de Lune
- Faithless
- Three A.M. Eternal
- Reckless
- Bacchus
- Self-Portrait as Shards of Mirror
- Johnny Minotaur
- Perfect
- In the Reading Room
- What Cannot Be Kept
- Kindertotenlieder
- Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
- A Muse
- Two Boys Glimpsed in Late Light
- Narcissus Explains
- The First Farewell to Antinoüs
- Ariadne's Dancing Floor
- Psyche's Lantern
- Pindaric Ode to Yet Another White Man as Apollo
- III
- A Primer of Small Stars
- Phenomenology
- Song to the Siren
- Where When Was
- North Pearl
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- White Days
- Tantalus in May
- Sunday
- Narcissus Loved Rivers Best
- Self-Portrait as a Man of Reason
- My Foolish Friend
- A Brief Manual for Swimmers
- By Greenwich Time
- Nuages
- Avail
- Self-Portrait as First Snow
- Whatever Wants to Be Seen Must Be Touched
- Sebastian's Summer Poem
- Rhizome
- Almost
- What Is Seized
- Apparently
- Until She Returns
