112 pages
English language
Published Dec. 3, 2021 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W..
n 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.
I’m not much of a poetry reader, so I’ve rated this somewhat based on the accessibility of it for me. To my untrained eye, the writing was excellent.
