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.

About the Author
Reginald Shepherd (1963D2008) was the author of five previous books of poetry: Fata Morgana; Otherhood; Wrong; Angel, Interrupted; and Some Are Drowning. His work has been widely anthologized, and has appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry

Reviews
Brilliant and elegiac.... A writer always conscious of the shadowy borders where myth and history-his own and Western civilization's-mingle.-Marilyn Hacker; ""Shepherd continues the mining-making mine-of classical texts and textures which has been for so long his forte.... No poet of his generation brings more intelligence, passion, wit, and necessary madness to poetry.""-Bin Ramke; ""True poets give gifts. Reginald Shepherd gives his readers the interest of the world.... Shepherd's book is a Song of Songs.""-Allen Grossman


Awards
Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Male Poetry) 2003.



Book Information
ISBN 9780822957973
Author Reginald Shepherd
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press