Red clay weather / Reginald Shepherd ; edited and with a foreword by Robert Philen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherd, Reginald, 1963-2008, author.

Contributor:

Philen, Robert, editor, author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Among other things, Shepherd has always been an elemental poet. His work abounds with the imagery and motifs of water and fire, and while those elements are important here, it is air and earth that are the more dominant elements in this collection....Clay, red clay in particular, recurs several times throughout the collection as a motif of earth. It is the substance of creation, but always of impermanent things, whether heroes or Babylonian statues with feet of clay, or of things durable but fragile, such as the cuneiform tablets of 'A Parking Lot Just Outside the Ruins of Babylon.'"-Robert Philen, from the Foreword

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword by Robert Philen

Part I

Days like Survival

By the Entrance to Cordova Mall, I Sat Down and Wept

And Therefore I Have Sailed the Seas and Come

As If from the Dead

Attempted Birdcage Number Three

To Be Free

The New Life

Direction of Fall

My Mother Was No White Dove

E Lucevan le Stelle

Experiment V

In the Badlands

Water Is a Museum

Doppelganger Music

A Shoulder to the Wheel

In Bloom

Along with Whatever Has Not Yet Been Named

To Summon Up a Son

Given Distance,

What Nature Doesn't Show

Wrote for Luck

My Mother Dated Otis Redding

Flying

Falling

Some Dreams He Forgot

Part II

Dead Boys Club

My Father by the Sea, Supposedly

A Little Iliad

Scraps of an Achilles

On Heroes and Hero Worship

Play Dead

My Immortal

Somewhere Off the Coast of Cyprus

The New Gods

If Orpheus Were Honest with Her

Silent Film, Sound of Glass

Modernism

And This She Knows

A Man Named Property

Natural Selection

Once Thought to Have Been Destroyed

The Shallows

What It Is to Burn

I've Known the Garden

Next Year in Gomorrah

A Parking Lot Just Outside the Ruins of Babylon

Alongside the Desiring Machines

Approximately Nothing

Kings Go Forth

Seize the Day

September Songs

Song of the Yet-to-Be-Decided

Soon

Narcissus Before the Rain

Lincoln Park Apocrypha

"God-With-Us"

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Poems.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822978305

082297830X

OCLC:

891385652