Reginald Shepherd’s five volumes of poetry, all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, are: Fata Morgana (2007); Otherhood (2003), a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Wrong (1999); Angel, Interrupted (1996); and Some Are Drowning (1994), winner of the 1993 AWP Award in Poetry. He is the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa Press, 2004). His collection of literary essays, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, is forthcoming in the University of Michigan Press Poets on Poetry series. The widely anthologized recipient of many awards and honors, he lives with his partner in Pensacola, Florida.
Lyric Postmodernisms gathers many well established poets whose work transcends the boundaries between traditional lyric and avant-garde experimentation. Some have been publishing since the 1960s, some have emerged more recently, but all have been influential on newer generations of American poets. Many of these poets are usually not thought of together, being considered as members of different poetic “camps,” but they nonetheless participate in a common project of expanding the boundaries of what can be said and done in poetry. This anthology sheds new light on their work, creating a new constellation of contemporary American poetry.

This collection provides an opportunity for readers to get to know the work of many writers who may not have received the attention their work and its impact on newer writers deserve. Unlike many anthologies that offer only snippets of writers’ work, it contains substantial selections from each poet. Uniquely, it also includes aesthetic statements from each author, which can offer an entryway for readers unfamiliar with the work.

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LYRIC POSTMODERNISMS
An Anthology of Contemporary Innovative Poetries, edited by Reginald Shepherd
$19.95, 6 x 9; 304 pgs.
ISBN 978-1933996-06-6
Nathaniel Mackey
Suzanne Paola
Bin Ramke
Donald Revell
Martha Ronk
Aaron Shurin
Carol Snow
Susan Stewart
Cole Swensen
Rosmarie Waldrop
Marjorie Welish
Elizabeth Willis
Bruce Beasley
Martine Bellen
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Gillian Conoley
Kathleen Fraser
Forrest Gander
C. S. Giscombe
Peter Gizzi
Brenda Hillman
Claudia Keelan
Timothy Liu