# Fata Morgana - Paperback

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by **Reginald Shepherd** (Author)

_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.

### Author Biography

**Reginald Shepherd** (1963-2008) was a Black, gay poet who grew up in the Bronx and went on to receive two MFAs, one from Brown University and one from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He authored two collections of poetry criticism and six poetry collections, all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press: _Red Clay Weather_, _Fata Morgana_, _Otherhood_, _Wrong_, _Angel, Interrupted_, and _Some Are Drowning_. His work has been widely awarded and anthologized and has appeared in four editions of _The Best American Poetry_ and two Pushcart Prize anthologies. Shepherd received many awards and honors over his career, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others.

**Number of Pages:** 112

**Dimensions:** 0.34 x 9.02 x 5.78 IN

**Publication Date:** February 05, 2007

**Award:** Lambda Literary Awards (2007)

**Award:** Florida Book Award (2007)

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