Angel, Interrupted.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherd, Reginald

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Angel, Interupted is Reginald Shepherd's second poetry collection. The poems are lyrical, streetwise and contemporary, yet timeless, classically referential, and introspective.

Contents:

The Angel of Interruptions

Maritime

Desire and the Slave Trade

Crush

Soul Music

About the Body, Beauty

Narcissus Learning the Words to This Song

Eros in His Striped Blue Shirt

The Other August

Depth of Field

Narcissus at the Adonis Theater

Two Versions of Midsummer

Trick of the Light

My Brother the Rain

Deep Water

A Man Named Troy

"Orpheus and Eros" / George Platt Lynes

He and Sleep Were Brothers

Narcissus in Plato's Cave

The Light Sieves What Escapes from Me

Follow Me

The Gods at Three A.M.

The Moon with Its Cargo of Bullion

Jouissance

Black Ice on Green Dolphin Street

Blue

Drawing from Life

Narcissus Was a Sad Boy, but a Heavenly

Art and Illusion

Tornado Watch

Sam Cooke Would Be Sixty-One This Year

Skin Trade

Orion

A Plague for Kit Marlowe

Narcissus as Gnostic

"Belief in Antinous"

A Little Knowledge

Narcissus and the Namesake River

Another Version of an Ocean

Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Commentary

Notes from Ariadne at Sea

Odysseus Becalmed

Narcissus on Echo Beach

Loved

Self-Portrait Surviving Spring

West Willow.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822956143

0822956144

9780822979739

082297973X

OCLC:

891395717