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Felon: Poems

Author : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652157
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Felon: Poems by : Reginald Dwayne Betts

Download or read book Felon: Poems written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Bright Felon

Author : Kazim Ali
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819569936
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book Bright Felon written by Kazim Ali and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking, transgenre work—part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past—is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time, ranging from discursive essay to memoir to prose poetry. Art, history, politics, geography, love, sexuality, writing, and religion, and the role silence plays in each, are its interwoven themes. Bright Felon is literally “autobiography” because the text itself becomes a form of writing the life, revealing secrets, and then, amid the shards and fragments of experience, dealing with the aftermath of such revelations. Bright Felon offers a new and active form of autobiography alongside such texts as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, Lyn Hejinian’s My Life, and Etel Adnan’s In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country. A reader’s companion is available at http://brightfelonreader.site.wesleyan.edu/

Shahid Reads His Own Palm

Author : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1948579928
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (485 download)

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Book Synopsis Shahid Reads His Own Palm by : Reginald Dwayne Betts

Download or read book Shahid Reads His Own Palm written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture time-bending experiences and the survivalist mentality needed to live a contradiction, confronting both daily torment and one's illogical fear of freedom.

A Question of Freedom

Author : Dwayne Betts
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101133368
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Freedom written by Dwayne Betts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's life At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is a "certifiable" offense, meaning that Betts would be treated as an adult under state law. A bright young kid, he served his nine-year sentence as part of the adult population in some of the worst prisons in the state. A Question of Freedom chronicles Betts's years in prison, reflecting back on his crime and looking ahead to how his experiences and the books he discovered while incarcerated would define him. Utterly alone, Betts confronts profound questions about violence, freedom, crime, race, and the justice system. Confined by cinder-block walls and barbed wire, he discovers the power of language through books, poetry, and his own pen. Above all, A Question of Freedom is about a quest for identity-one that guarantees Betts's survival in a hostile environment and that incorporates an understanding of how his own past led to the moment of his crime.

Customs

Author : Solmaz Sharif
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451697
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Customs written by Solmaz Sharif and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry Winner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for Poetry Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the imagination, the paces they put us through. While Sharif critiques the culture of performed social skills and poetry itself—its foreclosures, affects, successes—she begins to write her way out to the other side of acceptability and toward freedom. Customs is a brilliant, excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time.

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Author : Randall Horton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813179904
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book {#289-128} written by Randall Horton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this haunting collection. Three sections—{#289-128} Property of the State, {#289-128} Poet-in-Residence (Cell 23), and {#289-128} Poet in New York—frame the countless ways in which the narrator's body and life are socially and legally rendered by the state even as the act of poetry helps him reclaim an identity during imprisonment. These poems address the prison industrial complex, the carceral state, the criminal justice system, racism, violence, love, resilience, hope, and despair while exploring the idea of freedom in a cell. In the tradition of Dennis Brutus's Letters to Martha, Wole Soyinka's A Shuttle in the Crypt, and Etheridge Knight's The Essential Etheridge Knight, {#289-128} challenges the language of incarceration—especially the ways in which it reinforces stigmas and stereotypes. Though {#289-128} refuses to be defined as a felon, this collection viscerally details the dehumanizing effects of prison, which linger long after release. It also illuminates the ways in which we all are relegated to cells or boundaries, whether we want to acknowledge it or not.

The Prophet

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering inspiration to all, one man's philosophy of life and truth, considered one of the classics of our time.

Her Read

Author : Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680032291
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Her Read written by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Read: A Graphic Poem is a hybrid text at once poetry and visual art. In the tradition of reusing canvases, Steinorth takes a seminal text, The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read and with the liberal use of correction fluid, scalpel and embroidery floss, transforms the book from art criticism into feminist verse. Though the maternal body appears with frequency in Read’s illustrated text which spans from prehistory to the modern age, he includes zero female artists. Her Read: A Graphic Poem is an excavation of buried voices, a reclamation of bodies framed in gilt and an homage to those whose arts remain unsung.

The Black Poets

Author : Dudley Randall
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553275631
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Black Poets written by Dudley Randall and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1985-04-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress."--from the Introduction by Dudley Randall

A Place to Stand

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848907
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book A Place to Stand written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pushcart Prize–winning poet’s memoir of his criminal youth and years in prison: a “brave and heartbreaking” tale of triumph over brutal adversity (The Nation). Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “astonishing narrative” of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in the maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim. An important chronicle that “affirms the triumph of the human spirit,” it went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize (Arizona Daily Star). Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one when he was sentenced to five years in Florence State Prison for selling drugs in Arizona. This raw, unflinching memoir is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation—with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. “Proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A hell of a book, quite literally. You won’t soon forget it.” —The San Diego U-T “This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison, New York Times–bestselling author of A Good Day to Die

Bastards of the Reagan Era

Author : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Publisher : Stahlecker Selections
ISBN 13 : 9781935536659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Bastards of the Reagan Era written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and published by Stahlecker Selections. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bastards of the Reagan Era challenges and confronts many of the difficult realities that frame America

Pale Colors in a Tall Field

Author : Carl Phillips
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721424
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Pale Colors in a Tall Field by : Carl Phillips

Download or read book Pale Colors in a Tall Field written by Carl Phillips and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives, in turn, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender, dynamic, and startling books yet.

The Voice of Sheila Chandra

Author : Kazim Ali
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1948579685
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The Voice of Sheila Chandra written by Kazim Ali and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back.

If They Come for Us

Author : Fatimah Asghar
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0525509798
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book If They Come for Us written by Fatimah Asghar and published by One World. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist “Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.”—Elle “[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.”—The New Yorker NAMED ONE OF THE TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY • FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD an aunt teaches me how to tell an edible flower from a poisonous one. just in case, I hear her say, just in case. From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls comes an imaginative, soulful debut poetry that collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and race without the guidance of a mother or father. These poems at once bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion, while also exploring the many facets of violence: how it persists within us, how it is inherited across generations, and how it manifests itself in our relationships. In experimental forms and language both lyrical and raw, Asghar seamlessly braids together marginalized people’s histories with her own understanding of identity, place, and belonging. Praise for If They Come for Us “In forms both traditional . . . and unorthodox . . . Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible. Most vivid and revelatory are pieces such as ‘Boy,’ whose perspicacious turns and irreverent idiom conjure the rich, jagged textures of a childhood shadowed by loss.”—The New Yorker “[Asghar’s] debut poetry collection cemented her status as one of the city’s greatest present-day poets. . . . A stunning work of art that tackles place, race, sexuality and violence. These poems—both personal and historical, both celebratory and aggrieved—are unquestionably powerful in a way that would doubtless make both Gwendolyn Brooks and Harriet Monroe proud.”—Chicago Review of Books “Taut lines, vivid language, and searing images range cover to cover. . . . Inventive, sad, gripping, and beautiful.”—Library Journal (starred review)

Poetic Justice

Author : Robert Johnson
Publisher : Conservatory of American Letters
ISBN 13 : 9780890023679
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Justice written by Robert Johnson and published by Conservatory of American Letters. This book was released on 2004 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of poetry by an American University professor, serving classrooms as an auxiliary text. Poetry of/for/and about inmates and the criminal justice system. A useful text that presents ideas, facts and feelings in a memorable manner.

Titans of Corruption and Other Poems

Author : Carl A. Robertson Sr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649524041
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Titans of Corruption and Other Poems written by Carl A. Robertson Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titans of Corruption denotes that "No Oppressor will ever allow those who he once fully oppressed, to ever become equal to himself; and, his laws of equality will always be full of deception against the poor no matter their color." This is especially so for most Black, Brown, and poor white communities of the United States, whose trust for redemption and hope are still placed highly within their religious faiths. Robertson wrote within a Facebook post that: "The Fortunate Rich and White Elite, appears to be seeking the rewards of a civil war involving chauvinistic principles based against a people . . . who are considered by some as 'destroyer(s) of culture, ' 'a parasite within the nation, ' and 'a menace (to their [ELITES] economic ideals).' No differently than the thoughts of Adolf Hitler, and the extermination of millions who were also considered (born and raised) German citizens." That is what Titans of Corruption is trying to point out. All Americans no matter their color are caught up within the bigotries of the established wealthy (just as we are continually seeing throughout our nation today). It is a wake-up call that each American Citizen has a duty to make this nation a better and more equitable place to live for all our people and children, which then creates a significantly better future for all United States citizens as a whole.

The Mad Farmer Poems (Large Print 16pt)

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458757404
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book The Mad Farmer Poems (Large Print 16pt) written by Wendell Berry and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendell Baerry has become ''mad'' at contemporary society. Gleaned from various collections of this amazing American voice, the poems take the shape of manifestos, insults, and Whitmanic ravings that are often funny in spite of themselves. The whole is a wonderful testimony to the power of humor to bring even the most terrible consequences into an otherwise unobtainable focus.