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Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry by Reginald Shepherd (Hardcover, 2008)

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ISBN-13: 9780472099986, 978-0472099986. Orpheus in the Bronx. Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry.

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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.