Wrong.

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, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The poems of Reginald Shepherd's third book move among, mix, and manufacture stories, seeking to redefine the meaning of mythology. From the ruined representatives of Greek divinity (broken statues and fragmented stories), and the dazzling extravagances of predecessors like Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens, to the fleeting promises of popular music and the laconic demigods of the contemporary gay subculture, they sketch maps of a world in which desire may find a restless home. But desire leads the maps astray and maps mislead desire. The poems poems both enact language's powers to create a world and enforce the world's insistence (material, social, sexual, racial, historical) that mind (and body) surrender to circumstance. The struggle between these two halves that will never make a whole produces new myths of occasion, "packing the rifts/with sleeplessness, filling the gaps with lack." In that space between promise and deprivation, Wrong builds its song.

Contents:

Before

Geology of Water

Kneeling Self-Portrait

At the End of Outside

Antibody

Another Unclassical Eclogue

Placet Futile

The Beautiful

Salt Point

Deepest of the Great Lakes, Largest Too

Where It Passes, Untouchable

Lens

Acmeist Night

Surface Effects in Summer Wind

Narcissus Poetica

Solstice as Demon Lover

Vampires

Hermes, the Trickster

Another Conversation With the Moon

About a Boy

Another Movable Feast

Locale

Who Owns the Night and Leases Stars

Moonlight on Endymion's Sleep

Princes

False Nocturne

Popular Music of the Forties

Saint Hyacinth

Miscegenation

A Photo of the Berberini Faun

That Man

Littler Sonnet

To the Southern Cross as It Disappears

Some Maps

This History of His Body

Proprioception

Brightens

From the World of Matter

Seven Little Songs About the Moon

Motive

Dear Blackbird

Cities for Carter

Also Love You

Nights and Days of Nineteen-Something

Crepuscular

Telemachus on the Waterfront

At the Grave of Hart Crane

Icarus on Fire Island

The Little Mermaid's Fortune Teller

Shipwreck and Drift

Michael Who Walks by Night

S'il Meurt

L'Apres-Midi

World.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979708

0822979705

OCLC:

891395205