Concertina: Poems - Couverture souple

Bathanti, Joseph

 
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Synopsis

In 1976, Joseph Bathanti left his home in Pittsburgh for a fourteen- month sojourn as a VISTA Volunteer with the North Carolina Department of Correction. His new volume of poems, CONCERTINA, recounts in lyrical sweep his entry into the surreal, brutal, and often terrifyingly beautiful netherworld of convicts and their keepers. It is a world with one foot still firmly planted in the old chain gang, the other venturing beyond the manacles of history into a realm of second chances, while the country, in the throes of its bicentennial celebration, still swoons from Watergate and its aftermath.

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À propos de l?auteur

Joseph Bathanti is poet laureate of North Carolina and professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University. He is author of seven books of poetry, two novels, and a collection of stories. Half of What I Say is Meaningless, winner of the 2012 Will D. Campbell Award for Creative Nonfiction, is forthcoming from Mercer University Press.

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