Results for "Shepherd, Reginald"

Drawing from all six of his collections, The Selected Shepherd offers a new retrospective on the work of an important and sometimes controversial Black, gay poet. Although well known for his erotic poems about white men, Shepherd also wrote consistently about the natural world and its endangerment a... Read More about The Selected Shepherd: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

“Among other things, Shepherd has always been an elemental poet. His work abounds with the imagery and motifs of water and fire, and while those elements are important here, it is air and earth that are the more dominant elements in this collection. . . . Clay, red clay in particular, recurs several... Read More about Red Clay Weather (Pitt Poetry Series)

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.... Read More about Fata Morgana: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

The poems of Reginald Shepherd’s third book move among, mix, and manufacture stories, seeking to redefine the meaning of mythology. From the ruined representatives of Greek divinity (broken statues and fragmented stories), and the dazzling extravagances of predecessors like Hart Crane and Wallace St... Read More about Wrong (Pitt Poetry Series)

Angel, Interupted is Reginald Shepherd’s second poetry collection. The poems are lyrical, streetwise and contemporary, yet timeless,  classically referential, and introspective.... Read More about Angel Interrupted (Pitt Poetry Series)

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 t... Read More about Some Are Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series)