Orpheus in the Bronx

Orpheus in the Bronx

Author: Reginald Shepherd

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2010-02-05

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0472025430

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"Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings." ---James Longenbach A highly acute writer, scholar, editor, and critic, Reginald Shepherd brings to his work the sensibilities of a classicist and a contemporary theorist, an inheritor of the American high modernist canon, and a poet drawing and playing on popular culture, while simultaneously venturing into formal experimentation. In the essays collected here, Shepherd offers probing meditations unified by a "resolute defense of poetry's autonomy, and a celebration of the liberatory and utopian possibilities such autonomy offers." Among the pieces included are an eloquent autobiographical essay setting out in the frankest terms the vicissitudes of a Bronx ghetto childhood; the escape offered by books and "gifted" status preserved by maternal determination; early loss and the equivalent of exile; and the formation of the writer's vocation. With the same frankness that he brings to autobiography, Shepherd also sets out his reasons for rejecting "identity politics" in poetry as an unnecessary trammeling of literary imagination. His study of the "urban pastoral," from Baudelaire through Eliot, Crane, and Gwendolyn Brooks, to Shepherd's own work, provides a fresh view of the place of urban landscape in American poetry. Throughout his essays---as in his poetry---Shepherd juxtaposes unabashed lyricism, historical awareness, and in-your-face contemporaneity, bristling with intelligence. A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.


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Download or read book Orpheus in the Bronx written by Reginald Shepherd and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings." ---James Longenbach A highly acute writer, scholar, editor, and critic, Reginald Shepherd brings to his work the sensibilities of a classicist and a contemporary theorist, an inheritor of the American high modernist canon, and a poet drawing and playing on popular culture, while simultaneously venturing into formal experimentation. In the essays collected here, Shepherd offers probing meditations unified by a "resolute defense of poetry's autonomy, and a celebration of the liberatory and utopian possibilities such autonomy offers." Among the pieces included are an eloquent autobiographical essay setting out in the frankest terms the vicissitudes of a Bronx ghetto childhood; the escape offered by books and "gifted" status preserved by maternal determination; early loss and the equivalent of exile; and the formation of the writer's vocation. With the same frankness that he brings to autobiography, Shepherd also sets out his reasons for rejecting "identity politics" in poetry as an unnecessary trammeling of literary imagination. His study of the "urban pastoral," from Baudelaire through Eliot, Crane, and Gwendolyn Brooks, to Shepherd's own work, provides a fresh view of the place of urban landscape in American poetry. Throughout his essays---as in his poetry---Shepherd juxtaposes unabashed lyricism, historical awareness, and in-your-face contemporaneity, bristling with intelligence. A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

The Paradise of Forms

The Paradise of Forms

Author: Aaron Shurin

Publisher: Talisman House Publishers

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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The Paradise of Forms certifies Aaron Shurin as not only one of the most respected gay writers of our time but also as a poet at the forefront of today's avant-garde. Shurin, who is nationally recognized for his recent essays on the AIDS crisis, was an early contributor to Gay Sunshine and other gay magazines in the 1970s. In the 1980s, his poetry was increasingly identified among the most ambitious being published, and he is today known as one of the country's foremost innovative writers. The Paradise of Forms surveys all of Shurin's work but gives particular attention to his most recent writings, such as his Involuntary Lyrics: San Francisco, ah, west of ascension, none of us wanted posterity before we got to pleasure it! Another sick, sickening, the last newest in his prime.


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Download or read book The Paradise of Forms written by Aaron Shurin and published by Talisman House Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradise of Forms certifies Aaron Shurin as not only one of the most respected gay writers of our time but also as a poet at the forefront of today's avant-garde. Shurin, who is nationally recognized for his recent essays on the AIDS crisis, was an early contributor to Gay Sunshine and other gay magazines in the 1970s. In the 1980s, his poetry was increasingly identified among the most ambitious being published, and he is today known as one of the country's foremost innovative writers. The Paradise of Forms surveys all of Shurin's work but gives particular attention to his most recent writings, such as his Involuntary Lyrics: San Francisco, ah, west of ascension, none of us wanted posterity before we got to pleasure it! Another sick, sickening, the last newest in his prime.

Never Look Back

Never Look Back

Author: Alison Gaylin

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0062844555

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From the Edgar Award-winning author of If I Die Tonight Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben—with a Serial-esque podcast twist—an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated What Remains of Me and the USA Today bestselling and Shamus Award-winning Brenna Spector series. For thirteen days in 1976, teenage murderers April Cooper and Gabriel LeRoy terrorized Southern California's Inland Empire, killing a dozen victims before perishing themselves in a fire... or did they? More than 40 years later, twentysomething podcast producer Quentin Garrison blames his troubled upbringing on the murders. And after a shocking message from a source, he has reason to believe April Cooper may still be alive. Meanwhile, New York City film columnist Robin Diamond is coping with rising doubts about her husband and terrifying threats from internet trolls. But that's nothing compared to the outrageous phone call she gets from Quentin... and a brutal home invasion that makes her question everything she ever believed in. Is Robin's beloved mother a mass murderer? Is there anyone she can trust? Told through the eyes of those destroyed by the Inland Empire Killings—including Robin, Quentin, and a fifteen-year-old April Cooper—Never Look Back asks the question: How well do we really know our parents, our partners—and ourselves?


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Download or read book Never Look Back written by Alison Gaylin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Edgar Award-winning author of If I Die Tonight Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben—with a Serial-esque podcast twist—an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated What Remains of Me and the USA Today bestselling and Shamus Award-winning Brenna Spector series. For thirteen days in 1976, teenage murderers April Cooper and Gabriel LeRoy terrorized Southern California's Inland Empire, killing a dozen victims before perishing themselves in a fire... or did they? More than 40 years later, twentysomething podcast producer Quentin Garrison blames his troubled upbringing on the murders. And after a shocking message from a source, he has reason to believe April Cooper may still be alive. Meanwhile, New York City film columnist Robin Diamond is coping with rising doubts about her husband and terrifying threats from internet trolls. But that's nothing compared to the outrageous phone call she gets from Quentin... and a brutal home invasion that makes her question everything she ever believed in. Is Robin's beloved mother a mass murderer? Is there anyone she can trust? Told through the eyes of those destroyed by the Inland Empire Killings—including Robin, Quentin, and a fifteen-year-old April Cooper—Never Look Back asks the question: How well do we really know our parents, our partners—and ourselves?

Angel, Interrupted

Angel, Interrupted

Author: Reginald Shepherd

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2014-07-30

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 082297973X

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Angel, Interupted is Reginald Shepherd's second poetry collection. The poems are lyrical, streetwise and contemporary, yet timeless, classically referential, and introspective.


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Download or read book Angel, Interrupted written by Reginald Shepherd and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel, Interupted is Reginald Shepherd's second poetry collection. The poems are lyrical, streetwise and contemporary, yet timeless, classically referential, and introspective.

Dealing in Dreams

Dealing in Dreams

Author: Lilliam Rivera

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 148147216X

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“A novel exploration of societal roles, gender, and equality.” —School Library Journal (starred review) The Outsiders meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this “daring and dramatic” (Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling) dystopian novel about sisterhood and the cruel choices people are forced to make in order to survive. At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. Sixteen-year-old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That role brings with it violent throwdowns and access to the hottest boydega clubs, but Nala quickly grows weary of her questionable lifestyle. Her dream is to get off the streets and make a home in the exclusive Mega Towers, in which only a chosen few get to live. To make it to the Mega Towers, Nalah must prove her loyalty to the city’s benevolent founder and cross the border in a search of the mysterious gang the Ashé Riders. Led by a reluctant guide, Nalah battles crews and her own doubts but the closer she gets to her goal the more she loses sight of everything—and everyone—she cares about. Nalah must choose whether or not she’s willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants. Can she discover that home is not where you live but whom you chose to protect before she loses the family she’s created for good?


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Download or read book Dealing in Dreams written by Lilliam Rivera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novel exploration of societal roles, gender, and equality.” —School Library Journal (starred review) The Outsiders meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this “daring and dramatic” (Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling) dystopian novel about sisterhood and the cruel choices people are forced to make in order to survive. At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. Sixteen-year-old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That role brings with it violent throwdowns and access to the hottest boydega clubs, but Nala quickly grows weary of her questionable lifestyle. Her dream is to get off the streets and make a home in the exclusive Mega Towers, in which only a chosen few get to live. To make it to the Mega Towers, Nalah must prove her loyalty to the city’s benevolent founder and cross the border in a search of the mysterious gang the Ashé Riders. Led by a reluctant guide, Nalah battles crews and her own doubts but the closer she gets to her goal the more she loses sight of everything—and everyone—she cares about. Nalah must choose whether or not she’s willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants. Can she discover that home is not where you live but whom you chose to protect before she loses the family she’s created for good?

Lyric Postmodernisms

Lyric Postmodernisms

Author: Reginald Shepherd

Publisher: Counterpath Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1933996064

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Poetry. LYRIC POSTMODERNISMS gathers many well established poets whose work transcends the boundaries between traditional lyric and avant-garde experimentation. Some have been publishing since the 1960s, some have emerged more recently, but all have been influential on newer generations of American poets. Many of these poets are usually not thought of together, being considered as members of different poetic "camps," but they nonetheless participate in a common project of expanding the boundaries of what can be said and done in poetry. This anthology sheds new light on their work, creating a new constellation of contemporary American poetry. This collection provides an opportunity for readers to get to know the work of many writers who may not have received the attention their work and its impact on newer writers deserve. Unlike many anthologies that offer only snippets of writers' work, it contains substantial selections from each poet. Uniquely, it also includes aesthetic statements from each author, which can offer an entryway for readers unfamiliar with the work. Contributors: Nathaniel Mackey, Suzanne Paola, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell, Martha Ronk, Aaron Shurin, Carol Snow, Susan Stewart, Cole Swensen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Welish, Elizabeth Willis, Bruce Beasley, Martine Bellen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Gillian Conoley, Kathleen Fraser, Forrest Gander, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Brenda Hillman, Claudia Keelan, Timothy Liu.


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Download or read book Lyric Postmodernisms written by Reginald Shepherd and published by Counterpath Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. LYRIC POSTMODERNISMS gathers many well established poets whose work transcends the boundaries between traditional lyric and avant-garde experimentation. Some have been publishing since the 1960s, some have emerged more recently, but all have been influential on newer generations of American poets. Many of these poets are usually not thought of together, being considered as members of different poetic "camps," but they nonetheless participate in a common project of expanding the boundaries of what can be said and done in poetry. This anthology sheds new light on their work, creating a new constellation of contemporary American poetry. This collection provides an opportunity for readers to get to know the work of many writers who may not have received the attention their work and its impact on newer writers deserve. Unlike many anthologies that offer only snippets of writers' work, it contains substantial selections from each poet. Uniquely, it also includes aesthetic statements from each author, which can offer an entryway for readers unfamiliar with the work. Contributors: Nathaniel Mackey, Suzanne Paola, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell, Martha Ronk, Aaron Shurin, Carol Snow, Susan Stewart, Cole Swensen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Welish, Elizabeth Willis, Bruce Beasley, Martine Bellen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Gillian Conoley, Kathleen Fraser, Forrest Gander, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Brenda Hillman, Claudia Keelan, Timothy Liu.

Red Clay Weather

Red Clay Weather

Author: Reginald Shepherd

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780822961499

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The author died in 2008 after a difficult bout with cancer. Before his death, he had carefully selected the poems that make up this collection, so that the individual poems and the selection of poems for this collection were wholly his work. What he did not have time to do before his death was to arrange the sequence of the poems into a coherent collection. The editor attempts to discern an order inherent to the poems wherein they speak to one another and the sequence adds up to something larger than the individual poems.


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Download or read book Red Clay Weather written by Reginald Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author died in 2008 after a difficult bout with cancer. Before his death, he had carefully selected the poems that make up this collection, so that the individual poems and the selection of poems for this collection were wholly his work. What he did not have time to do before his death was to arrange the sequence of the poems into a coherent collection. The editor attempts to discern an order inherent to the poems wherein they speak to one another and the sequence adds up to something larger than the individual poems.

New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

Author: George G. Foster

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990-11-21

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780520909472

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First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum—the underground story—of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among the characters of the urban demi-monde to produce a sensationalized but extraordinarily revealing portrait of New York at the moment it was emerging as a major metropolis. Reprinted here with sketches from two of Foster's other books, New York by Gas-Light will be welcomed by students of urban social history, popular culture, literature, and journalism. Editor Stuart M. Blumin has provided a penetrating introductory essay that sets Foster's life and work in the contexts of the growing city, the development of the mass-distribution publishing industry, the evolving literary genre of urban sensationalism, and the wider culture of Victorian America. This is an important reintroduction to a significant but neglected work, a prologue to the urban realism that would flourish later in the fiction of Stephen Crane, the painting of George Bellows, and the journalism of Jacob Riis.


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Download or read book New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches written by George G. Foster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-11-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum—the underground story—of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among the characters of the urban demi-monde to produce a sensationalized but extraordinarily revealing portrait of New York at the moment it was emerging as a major metropolis. Reprinted here with sketches from two of Foster's other books, New York by Gas-Light will be welcomed by students of urban social history, popular culture, literature, and journalism. Editor Stuart M. Blumin has provided a penetrating introductory essay that sets Foster's life and work in the contexts of the growing city, the development of the mass-distribution publishing industry, the evolving literary genre of urban sensationalism, and the wider culture of Victorian America. This is an important reintroduction to a significant but neglected work, a prologue to the urban realism that would flourish later in the fiction of Stephen Crane, the painting of George Bellows, and the journalism of Jacob Riis.

Remembered Names

Remembered Names

Author: Donley Phillips

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2017-03-29

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1524526703

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Los Angeles, California. Memories make great subjects for art. For writer-poet Donley Phillips, his experiences and memories that have been etched carefully in his mind are what make his latest book phenomenal. Remembered Names: Selected Poems Fourth Edition will surely entice readers as they delve into the poet’s mind, heart, and soul. With over ninety of the most beautifully written poems to marvel, Phillips reveals his deepest emotions and innermost thoughts about his past. With loving tributes to his family and significant loved ones, Phillips pens down with utmost sincerity yet masterfully conveys life and art. The stunning portraits and images included in this amazing book undoubtedly fuse perfectly with themes that embrace love, pain, sorrow, race, religion, and faith. Readers will find themselves enveloped in a myriad of emotions in this amazing poetry collection by Donley Phillips. Remembered Names: Selected Poems Fourth Edition creates an unforgettable, illuminating experience. Remembered Names was received by Poetry Magazine of Chicago.


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Download or read book Remembered Names written by Donley Phillips and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles, California. Memories make great subjects for art. For writer-poet Donley Phillips, his experiences and memories that have been etched carefully in his mind are what make his latest book phenomenal. Remembered Names: Selected Poems Fourth Edition will surely entice readers as they delve into the poet’s mind, heart, and soul. With over ninety of the most beautifully written poems to marvel, Phillips reveals his deepest emotions and innermost thoughts about his past. With loving tributes to his family and significant loved ones, Phillips pens down with utmost sincerity yet masterfully conveys life and art. The stunning portraits and images included in this amazing book undoubtedly fuse perfectly with themes that embrace love, pain, sorrow, race, religion, and faith. Readers will find themselves enveloped in a myriad of emotions in this amazing poetry collection by Donley Phillips. Remembered Names: Selected Poems Fourth Edition creates an unforgettable, illuminating experience. Remembered Names was received by Poetry Magazine of Chicago.

Otherhood

Otherhood

Author: Reginald Shepherd

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2014-08-07

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0822979721

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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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Download or read book Otherhood written by Reginald Shepherd and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.