Orpheus in the Bronx
"Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry''s greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings."
---James Longenbach
A highly acute writer, scholar, editor, and critic, Reginald Shepherd brings to his work the sensibilities of a classi...
"Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry''s greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings."
---James Longenbach
A highly acute writer, scholar, editor, and critic, Reginald Shepherd brings to his work the sensibilities of a classi...
