Fata Morgana : poems / Reginald Shepherd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherd, Reginald, 1963-2008.

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

104 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Five feelings for Orpheus

Orpheus plays the Bronx

Persephone's celestial sphere

How people disappear

For my mother in lieu of mourning

Suture

Probably Eros

Remainder's edge

Even this

Refrain

Pear tree, Bartlett, quotations

At weep

Things waiting to be dangerous

Boy, allegorically deployed

Brightness falls

Mappa Mundi

Cloud chamber

Waterfront

You also, nightingale

Topograph

Some kind of Osiris

Naturalism

Kinds of camouflage

Respite

Itinerary

Homeric interim

Turandot

Narcissus to Echo

Snowdrops and summer snowflakes, drooping

Eve's awakening

The tendency of dropped objects to fall

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear

Self-portrait in the new world order

Dust

My desert

While the Temptations are singing "I wish it would rain"

Come this far

Thieves like us

These are the things

A handful of sand

The navigators

With the wind blowing through it

LIght years

Angles of vision

Somewhere outside of Eden

Hesitation theory

One of the lesser epics

You, therefore.

ISBN:

9780822959519

0822959518

OCLC:

85813434

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