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Doggerel: Poems

By Reginald Dwayne Betts
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One of Library Journal’s Best Books of the Year

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“Satisfyingly rich meditations on companionship, loss, and more.” —New York Times Book Review


Doggerel is a revelatory meditation on Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability from one of poetry’s boldest voices.

Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic—but equall...

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PoetryAmerican Poetry21st Century American PoetryAfrican American PoetryAmerican poetry->African American authors->21st centuryAmerican poetry->21st century