| Wrong Contributor(s): Shepherd, Reginald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822957116 ISBN-13: 9780822957119 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1999 Annotation: 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 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 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 99006911 |
| Series: Pitt Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.54" W x 8.54" (0.33 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |