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There is a hard and lucid quality in Shepherd's work. The words seem to be burned into the page with lasers, so precise and sharp-edged are they. His subject is the redeeming power of love, especially of that transgressive lust that brings the body in conflict with social proscriptions. His paradigm: the love of white and black men for each other. Shepherd's language is big and torqued with passion, and his images pile densely but are pulled through the text by a strong rope of narrative. One splendid poem springs from the suggestive fact that the first American slave ship was named Desire; touring the vestiges of this past with a white lover ("I'm always calling you / my friend"), the poet struggles with "a knot / my fingers have been bloodied / trying to untie" --the knot of race and sex. These poems are rich, wild, deep, and strong. Patricia Monaghan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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There is a hard and lucid quality in Shepherd's work. The words seem to be burned into the page with lasers, so precise and sharp-edged are they. His subject is the redeeming power of love, especially of that transgressive lust that brings the body in conflict with social proscriptions. His paradigm: the love of white and black men for each other. Shepherd's language is big and torqued with passion, and his images pile densely but are pulled through the text by a strong rope of narrative. One splendid poem springs from the suggestive fact that the first American slave ship was named Desire; touring the vestiges of this past with a white lover ("I'm always calling you / my friend"), the poet struggles with "a knot / my fingers have been bloodied / trying to untie" --the knot of race and sex. These poems are rich, wild, deep, and strong. Patricia Monaghan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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“There is a hard and lucid quality in Shepherd's work. The words seem to be burned into the page with lasers, so precise and sharp-edged are they. . . . Shepherd's language is big and torqued with passion, and his images pile densely but are pulled through the text by a strong rope of narrative. . . . These poems are rich, wild, deep, and strong.”
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- Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology by Deborah De Nicola in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Contra/Diction: New Queer Male Fiction by Brett Josef Grubisic in Back Matter
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