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{#289-128}: Poems (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

{#289-128}: Poems (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

ISBN: 9780813179889
  • Author: Horton, Randall
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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 -- {#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

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