A Martian Muse: Further Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry

by Reginald Shepherd

Book Overview

Those who have read Orpheus in the Bronx, Reginald Shepherd's previous collection of essays about the act of creating poetry, and those who take on the task, can immediately understand why it was a national finalist for a prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Shepherd was candid and disarming, practical and funny, able to mix thoughts about the Transformers with meditations on the realities of growing up poor.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472050974
• ISBN13: 9780472050970
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.1"