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100	1		_aBetts, Reginald Dwayne, _d1980- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFelon : _bpoems / _cReginald Dwayne Betts.
250			_aFirst edition.
300			_ax, 96 pages ; _c22 cm
505	0	0	_tGhazal -- _tBlood history -- _tThe Lord might have given him wings -- _tBehind yellow tape -- _tLosing her -- _tWhisky for breakfast -- _tFor a bail denied -- _tTriptych -- _tWhen I think of Tamir Rice while driving -- _tIn Alabama -- _tA man drops a coat on the sidewalk and almost falls into the arms of another -- _tCity of the moon -- _tDiesel therapy -- _tif absence was the source of silence -- _tEssay on reentry -- _tIn Houston -- _tNight -- _tEssay on reentry -- _tEssay on reentry -- _tOn voting for Barack Obama in Nat Turner t-shirt -- _tExile -- _tParking lot -- _tParking lot, too -- _tGong back -- _tIn California -- _tTemptation of the rope -- _tBallad of the groundhog -- _tNovember 5, 1980 -- _t& even when there is something to complain about -- _tMural for the heart -- _tEssay on reentry -- _tConfession -- _tIn Missouri -- _tHouse of unending.
520			_a"A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys "the visceral effect that prison has on identity" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). 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 a person's life. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility-from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume's radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret; in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a "felon.""--
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650		0	_aImprisonment _xSocial aspects _vPoetry.
650		0	_aAmerican poetry _y21st century.
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