Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Felon: Poems

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Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts

W. W. Norton & Company

Felon: Poems

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In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration--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 post-incarceration existence in traditional and newfound forms, from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume's radiant conclusion.

Book Details
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393542035
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Published Date:
2021-03-30
Language:
English
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About Reginald Dwayne Betts

Reginald Dwayne Betts was sixteen when he pleaded guilty to carjacking. He was sentenced to nine years in adult prison, where he began writing. He holds a BA from the University of Maryland, an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a JD from Yale Law School, and founded the nonprofit Freedom Reads. Shahid Reads His Own Palm won the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books in 2010; Bastards of the Reagan Era came from Four Way Books in 2015; and W. W. Norton has published Felon in 2019, Redaction with the artist Titus Kaphar in 2023 and Doggerel in 2025. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry in 2018 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2021.

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