{#289-128}: Poems

"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 t

Author: Randall Horton
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 09/08/2020
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780813179889