“When I came back, I was thinking about how to tell the story. And I wanted to meet people who in one way or number resembled the young people who I’d known as a kid and I was talking to various people, and I had some ideas. And then I got a call from a […]
A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times).
Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poemscanvassing his wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and graceand, 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. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a “felon.”
From “Night”
What she tells me: prison killed you my love, killed you so dead that you’re not here now, you’re never here, you’re always.
A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times).
Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poemscanvassing his wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and graceand, 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. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a “felon.”
From “Night”
What she tells me: prison killed you my love, killed you so dead that you’re not here now, you’re never here, you’re always.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781797101675 |
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Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Audio |
Publication date: | 10/15/2019 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
Product dimensions: | 5.80(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.60(d) |