 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
ORPHEUS IN THE BRONX
ESSAYS ON IDENTITY, POLITICS, AND THE FREEDOM OF POETRY |
| By: |
Reginald Shepherd |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£68.95 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0472099981 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780472099986 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2008 |
| Series: |
Poets on Poetry |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
A collection of essays which celebrate the liberatory and utopian possibilities that poetry's autonomy offers. |
| Synopsis: |
What unifies the essays in "Orpheus in the Bronx", writes author Reginald Shepherd, "is a resolute defense of poetry's autonomy, and a celebration of the liberatory and utopian possibilities such autonomy offers." Among the pieces in "Orpheus in the Bronx": an unflinchingly honest meditation on the author's personal history and development as a writer and poet, a development that for many writers is often framed within the context of privilege - something Shepherd himself never had access to; an examination of the urban pastoral, which is an exploration, according to Shepherd, of "the splendor and misery of cities in which the cityscape is an active character, a presence that conditions and shapes the poems as much as it is appropriated and shaped by them"; and an essay on beauty and its meanings and forms. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|