Otherhood: Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherd, Reginald

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Reasons for Living 3

An Abbreviated History of Signs 5

Kingdom: An Epithalamium 7

Little Hands 8

Flicker 11

The Invention of Longitude 13

Wing under Construction 15

In the City of Elagabal 18

Periplus 27

Blue One Lake 30

Burnt from the Notebooks 32

Syntax 34

Polaroid 35

Confluence 37

Three Songs about Snow 38

Amant Marine 40

Les Semblables 41

Roman Year 42

Homology 49

Hygiene 52

Apollo on What the Boy Gave 55

Iconography Says: 57

Apollo Steps in Daphne's Footprints 59

A Little Bitter Commentary 61

Wicker Man Marginalia 63

Lighthouse Wreckage 65

Photogram: Submerged Rocks 70

Justice: An Ode 72

Semantics at Four P.M. 74

Transitional Objects 76

Occurrences across the Chromatic Scale 78

Frame 80

Cygnus 82

Littoral 85

Interglacial 86

Weather Comes from the West 87

One of Their Gods 88

Manifest 89

Unravel 90

The Practice of Goodbye 91

Imaginary Elegy 93

The Anania Butterfly 94.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979722

0822979721

OCLC:

891395828