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Sonnets from a cell

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    Publisher:
    Kingston, Ontario, Brick Books, 2023

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  • Author: Peters, Bradley
    Date:
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    2023
    Summary:

    Poems for and about the incarcerated. Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters' debut Sonnets from a Cell 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. 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.

    Original Publisher: Toronto, Brick Books, Kingston, Ontario, Brick Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771316156