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Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
Reginald Shepherd
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Description for Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
Hardcover. A collection of essays which celebrate the liberatory and utopian possibilities that poetry's autonomy offers. Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 345.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Poets on Poetry
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472099986
SKU
V9780472099986
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About Reginald Shepherd
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
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