Sonnets from a Cell
Bradley Peters
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Publisher:
Brick Books
Brick Books
DRM:
Watermark
Watermark
Publication Year:
2023
2023
ISBN-13:
9781771316156
Description:
<p><b>Poems for and about the incarcerated.</b></p> <p>Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters' debut <i>Sonnets from a Cell</i> mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is tough and tender, that is accountable both to Peters' own days "caught between the past and nothing" and to the structures that sentence so many "to lose." Written behind doors our culture too often keeps closed, this is poetry reaching out for moments of longing, wild joy and grace.</p> <p>Drawing on his own experiences as a teenager and young adult in and out of the Canadian prison system, Peters has written both a personal reckoning and a damning and eloquent account of our violence- and enforcement-obsessed capitalist and patriarchal cultures.</p>
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