Orpheus in the Bronx

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-472-06998-9
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Poets on Poetry

What unifies the essays in ""Orpheus in the Bronx"", writes author Reginald Shepherd, ""is a resolute defense of poetry's autonomy, and a celebration of the liberatory and utopian possibilities such autonomy offers."" Among the pieces in ""Orpheus in the Bronx"": an unflinchingly honest meditation on the author's personal history and development as a writer and poet, a development that for many writers is often framed within the context of privilege - something Shepherd himself never had access to; an examination of the urban pastoral, which is an exploration, according to Shepherd, of ""the splendor and misery of cities in which the cityscape is an active character, a presence that conditions and shapes the poems as much as it is appropriated and shaped by them""; and an essay on beauty and its meanings and forms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shepherd, Reginald

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Portrait of the Artist; To Make Me Who I Am; Manifestos of a Sort; The Other's Other: Against Identity Poetry, for Possibility; Toward an Urban Pastoral; Notes toward Beauty; One State of the Art; Readings; On Alvin Feinman's ""True Night""; On Jorie Graham's Erosion: Poetry, Perception, Politics; What Remained of a Genet: On the Topic of Querelle; Shadows and Light Moving on Water: On Samuel R. Delany; Four Gay American Poets; On Linda Gregg's Too Bright to See; A Poetics; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Coat: Nuances of a Theme by Stevens.

Über Autor(innen)

Reginald Shepherd is the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. Otherhood, a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2003. Recipient of grants from the NEA, the Illinois Arts Council, the Saltonstall Foundation, and the Vogelstein Foundation, among other awards and honors, Shepherd currently lives with his partner in Pensacola, Florida.