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{#289-128} - Poems (Paperback)
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{#289-128} - Poems (Paperback)
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
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List price R466
Loot Price R383
Discovery Miles 3 830
You Save R83 (18%)
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"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.
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