Background
Shepherd, Reginald was born on April 10, 1963 in New York City. Son of Goldburn Shepherd and Blanche Althea Berry.
( Written in the spaces between otherness and brotherhood...)
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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( This first collection of poems enacts the struggle of a...)
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 the drowning.
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( Angel, Interupted is Reginald Shepherd’s second poetry ...)
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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( Fata Morgana mingles personal experience, history, myth...)
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.
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Shepherd, Reginald was born on April 10, 1963 in New York City. Son of Goldburn Shepherd and Blanche Althea Berry.
Shepherd, African-American and gay, graduated from Bennington College in 1988, and received MFAs from Brown University and the University of Iowa, where he attended the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop.
He died of cancer in Pensacola, Florida, in 2008. He subsequently taught at Northern Illinois University and Cornell University. He is also the author of A Martian Muse: Further Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of (published posthumously in 2010), Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of (2007) and the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (2004) and of Lyric Postmodernisms (2008).
His honors and awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the Florida Arts Council, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
( Fata Morgana mingles personal experience, history, myth...)
( Written in the spaces between otherness and brotherhood...)
( This first collection of poems enacts the struggle of a...)
( Angel, Interupted is Reginald Shepherd’s second poetry ...)
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Member Modern Language Association, Associated Writing Programs.