{#289-128}: Poems

"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 tAuthor: Randall HortonBinding Type: PaperbackPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 09/08/2020Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & ProsePages: 104Weight: 0.3lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30dISBN: 9780813179889About the AuthorRandall Horton's past honors include the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and most recently a GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction for Hook: A Memoir. The author of numerous books, he is a