{"product_id":"shepherd-reginald-angel-intpb","title":"Shepherd, Reginald: Angel, Interrupted","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Pittsburgh, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eOctober 17, 1996\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book__content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngel, Interupted is Reginald Shepherd’s second poetry collection. The poems are lyrical, streetwise and contemporary, yet timeless, classically referential, and introspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"review__text\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fas fa-quote-left quote-icon\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003eThis is a book of unabashed lyricism and in-your-face contemporaneity, bristling with intelligence, challenging the reader to envision at once the panhandlers of Chicago and the princess of Troy, the iconic beauty of Narcissus of Antinous superimposed upon numinous black and white American bodies in a warily passionate embrace.\"\u003ci class=\"fas fa-quote-right quote-icon\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfooter class=\"review__author\"\u003e-Marilyn Hacker\u003c\/footer\u003e\u003cfooter class=\"review__author\"\u003e\u003c\/footer\u003e\u003cfooter class=\"review__author\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Angel Interrupted is written on water. Fluid, bright, and moving, fully aware of the fleeting beauty of the things of this world, these poems catch the light between lyric and myth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Susan Stewart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is such an exuberant sadness to this collection that no one will escape it unchanged. Reginald Shepherd's instructions to us are simple: 'Read this and tell me what it says.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Bin Ramke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/footer\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817197940759,"sku":"9780822956143","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9780822956143-scaled.jpg?v=1767906459","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/shepherd-reginald-angel-intpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}