Fata Morgana: Poems

by Reginald Shepherd

Book Overview

Fata Morgana mingles personal experience, history, mythology, politics, and natural science to explore the relationships of conception and perception, the self finding its way through a physical and social world not of its own making, but changing the world by its presence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822959518
• ISBN13: 9780822959519
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

At times wistful, at times adventurous

Award-winning African-American poet Reginald Shepherd presents his fifth collection, Fata Morgana, a gathering of lyrical, free-verse poetry that bridges the divide between words and song. Drawing upon a diversity of sources from personal experience to history, mythology, politics, and natural science, Fata Morgana delves into the mutual effects conception, perception, the self, and a physical and social world have upon one another. At times wistful, at times adventurous, Fata Morgana dares to offer a different perspective of Eve's first awakening, hidden history within the Sahara desert, and the dust that is all that remains of humans and stars in the sky alike. Highly recommended. Feelings for Orpheus I: "Orpheus sits on the strumming esplanade / losing his head for water. Florid / light sounds noon, currents green // with overflowing sun and dumped / industrial wastes: the Chicago River turning / mineral, all emerald, tourmaline."