Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Exceptional Literary Work in Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Reward in Poetry A searing volume by a poet whose work communicates “the visceral impact that jail has on identity” (Michiko Kakutani, New York City Times).
Felon informs the story of the impacts of imprisonment in intense, amazing poems– canvassing a wide variety of feelings and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, substance abuse, domestic violence, fathership, and grace– and, in doing so, develops a travelogue for a thought of life.
Reginald Dwayne Betts faces the funk of postincarceration presence and analyzes jail not as a fixed area, however as a force that enacts pressure throughout an individual’s life. The poems move in between conventional and newly found types with power and dexterity– from innovative discovered poems developed by editing court files to the amazing crown of sonnets that works as the volume’s glowing conclusion.
Drawing motivation from suits submitted on behalf of the put behind bars, the redaction poems concentrate on the methods we make use of and remove the bad and put behind bars from public awareness. Generally, redaction eliminates what is supersecret; in Felon, Betts edits what is unneeded, bringing into focus the extensive failures of the criminal justice system and the insufficiency of the labels it produces.
Challenging the intricacies of language, Betts stimulates what it suggests to be a “felon.”
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