Felon
Read by
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Release:
10/15/2019
Release:
10/15/2019
Runtime:
1h 23m
Runtime:
1h 23m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“Shows how poems can be enlisted to radically disrupt narrative.”
New Yorker
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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 poems― canvassing his 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 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.
Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poems― canvassing his 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 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.
Release:
2019-10-15
2019-10-15
Runtime:
Runtime:
1h 23m
1h 23m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.35 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781797101651
9781797101675
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Simon & Schuster Audio
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