Reginald Shepherd

The Selected Shepherd (eBook, ePUB)

Poems
Redaktion: Brown, Jericho

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An Introduction to the Life, Work, and "Difficulty" of Reginald Shepherd

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822991403
• Artikelnr.: 72254978

Autorenporträt

Reginald Shepherd (Author) Reginald Shepherd (19632008) was a Black, gay poet who grew up in the Bronx and went on to receive two MFAs, one from Brown University and one from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He authored two collections of poetry criticism and six poetry collections, all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press: Red Clay Weather, Fata Morgana, Otherhood, Wrong, Angel, Interrupted, and Some Are Drowning. His work has been widely awarded and anthologized and has appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry and two Pushcart Prize anthologies. Shepherd received many awards and honors over his career, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Jericho Brown (Editor) Jericho Brown is author of The Tradition, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Brown's first book, Please, won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection, The Tradition, won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.