This collection of poems enacts the struggle of a young black gay man in his search for identity. The poet's aim is to rescue some portion of the drowned and the drowning. Shepherd is the winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry.
This collection of poems enacts the struggle of a young black gay man in his search for identity. The poet's aim is to rescue some portion of the drow...
This collection of poems catches the light between lyric and myth. Reginald Shepherd's first book Some are Drowning won the 1993 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry. He has also received a 1993 Discovery/The Nation Award and the 1994-1995 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.
This collection of poems catches the light between lyric and myth. Reginald Shepherd's first book Some are Drowning won the 1993 Associated Writing Pr...
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.
Written in the spaces between otherness and brotherhood, Otherhood combines traditional lyricism with experimentalism, passionate engagement wi...
