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Reginald Shepherd

Reginald Shepherd (1963–2008) wrote five books of poetry, including Wrong, Otherhood, and Fata Morgana, as well as a book of critical essays, Orpheus in the Bronx.

Articles

Two new collections from Joanna Klink and Geoffrey G. O'Brien.
Reginald Shepherd

On Mark Wunderlick, Dana Levin, and Brenda Shaughnessy.

Reginald Shepherd
Reginald Shepherd

Forum Responses

T. S. Eliot said that the poet must be as intelligent as possible; Wallace Stevens said that the poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully. It is in the play between the...
Reginald Shepherd
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