Felon Poems 1st Edition by Reginald Dwayne Betts ISBN 0393652149 ‎ 978-0393652147

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ISBN 10:  0393652149
ISBN 13: ‎ 978-0393652147
Author: Reginald Dwayne Betts

One of the New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2020
Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry
Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry

A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).

Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems―canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace―and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of postincarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person’s life.

The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility―from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret; in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates.

Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a “felon.”

Felon Poems 1st Table of contents:

1. Blood History
2. The Lord Might Have Given Him Wings
3. Behind Yellow Tape
4. Losing Her
5. Whisky for Breakfast
6. For a Bail Denied
7. Triptych
8. When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving
9. In Alabama
10. A Man Drops a Coat on the Sidewalk and Almost Falls into the Arms of Another
11. City of the Moon
12. Diesel Therapy
13. If Absence Was the Source of Silence
14. Essay on Reentry
15. In Houston
16. Night
17. Essay on Reentry
18. Essay on Reentry
19. On Voting for Barack Obama in a Nat Turner T-Shirt
20. Exile
21. Parking Lot
22. Parking Lot, Too
23. Going Back
24. In California
25. Temptation of the Rope
26. Ballad of the Groundhog
27. November 5, 1980
28. & Even When There Is Something to Complain About
29. Mural for the Heart
30. Essay on Reentry
31. Confession
32. In Missouri
33. House of Unending

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