Some Are Drowning

This poetry feels passionately truthful and his own, a gay young black man adrift between worlds, transcending the fragments of his life in song.
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Winner, 1993 AWP Award Series in Poetry

This first collection of poems enacts the struggle of a young black gay man in his search for identity. Many voices haunt these poems: black and white, male and female, the oppressor’s voice as well as the oppressed. The poet’s aim, finally, is to rescue some portion of the drowned and the drowning.

88 Pages, 6 x 9 in.

January, 1995

isbn : 9780822955474

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Reginald Shepherd

Reginald Shepherd (1963-2008) 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 and two Pushcart Prize anthologies.

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