Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Shahid Reads His Own Palm

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Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts
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Shahid Reads His Own Palm

Alice James Books

Shahid Reads His Own Palm

by Reginald Dwayne Betts

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Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture time-bending experiences and the survivalist mentality needed to live a contradiction, confronting both daily torment and one's illogical fear of freedom.
Book Details
Publisher:
Alice James Books
ISBN:
9781882295814
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Published Date:
2010-06-01
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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