{"product_id":"wrong-reginald-shepherd-9780822957119","title":"Wrong","description":"The poems of Reginald Shepherd's third book move among, mix, and manufacture stories, seeking to redefine the meaning of mythology. From the ruined representatives of Greek divinity (broken statues and fragmented stories), and the dazzling extravagances of predecessors like Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens, to the fleeting promises of popular music and the laconic demigods of the contemporary gay subculture, they sketch maps of a world in which desire may find a restless home. But desire leads the maps astray and maps mislead desire. The poems poems both enact language's powers to create a world and enforce the world's insistence (material, social, sexual, racial, historical) that mind (and body) surrender to circumstance. The struggle between these two halves that will never make a whole produces new myths of occasion, \"packing the rifts\/with sleeplessness, filling the gaps with lack.\" In that space between promise and deprivation, \u003ci\u003eWrong\u003c\/i\u003e builds its song.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reginald Shepherd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822957116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822957119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.54w x 0.35d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/06\/1999 pg. 73","brand":"Reginald Shepherd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926545596671,"sku":"9780822957119","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_38d15fe2-f4cd-4559-a562-66b5d8509ed0.jpg?v=1681083668","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wrong-reginald-shepherd-9780822957119","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}