Felon: Poems

Author: Reginald Dwayne Betts
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2019
Pages: 96
ISBN: 978-0393652147 

In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration—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 post-incarceration existence in traditional and newfound forms, from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion.


EXPLORE FURTHER

LITERATURE