Felon: Poems

by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393652149
• ISBN13: 9780393652147
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.5"