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""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-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horton, Randall (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2020]
Colección:University Press of Kentucky new poetry and prose series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Property of the State
  • Animals
  • Arrest Warrant
  • Don't Trust the Process
  • The Making of {#289-128} in Five Parts
  • Sorry This Not That Poem
  • Rhetorical, Perhaps
  • OR. This Malus Thing Never to Be Confused with Justice
  • Escorting the Criminal Justice Advocate through State Prison
  • Counterproductive Definitions within the Criminal Justice System (1)
  • Nothing as It Seems
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Roxbury Correctional Book Club
  • How to Become the Invisible Man
  • Quiet Before the Storm in the Dayroom
  • When Bullets Miss but Memory Lives
  • Counterproductive Definitions within the Criminal Justice System (2)
  • Poet in Residence (Cell 23)
  • On Reflection
  • Aesthetic Beauty I Remember I Think
  • Photograph of My Girl Winter on 135th and Broadway Taped to the Wall
  • In a Dream the Silent
  • But She Wasn't from My Geographical Location
  • Dear Etheridge (2)
  • Abracadabra
  • Trouble the Water
  • When the Government Doesn't Love You (the Eighties)
  • Open Air Market on Herkimer & Nostrand, Brooklyn (1989)
  • 1990 (a Forecast)
  • Sex Workers on Smoke Break 1994
  • When Your Silence Will Not Save You
  • Imagination Running Wild-
  • Black Male Privilege
  • Before the Beauty .or. How Could U Forget?
  • Poet in New York
  • Remember
  • {#289-128}-Still Invisible, Too
  • A Primer for Surviving a Traffic Stop
  • Americans in Times Square
  • On the Hudson River at Piers Park
  • Riverside Drive State Park
  • Randy Weston's African Rhythms Concert, the Day After (for Sally Ann Hard Alex Blake)
  • Beware of the Bandleader
  • Ars Poetica (3): Stay Woke
  • Subway Chronicles
  • Walking with Ghost in Harlem
  • Ars Poetica (1): Art as Propaganda
  • After Ruin