Randall Horton

Broschiertes Buch

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Poems

Beschreibung

"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

Autor

Randall Horton's past honors include the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and most recently a GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction for Hook: A Memoir. The author of numerous books, he is a member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders, which received the 2018 American Book Award in Oral Literature. He is associate professor of English at the University of New Haven.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 143g
• ISBN-13: 9780813179889
• ISBN-10: 0813179882
• Artikelnr.: 59179601