Doggerel
Poems
Seiten
2025
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-08925-4 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-08925-4 (ISBN)
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One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
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 equally rich—lens: dogs. He reminds us that, as our lives are broken and put back together, the only witness often barks instead of talks. In these poems, which touch on companionship in its many forms, Betts seamlessly and skillfully deploys the pantoum, ghazal, and canzone, in conversation with artists such as Freddie Gibbs and Lil Wayne.
Simultaneously philosophical and playful, Doggerel is a meditation on family, falling in love, friendship, and those who accompany us on our walk through life. Balancing political critique with personal experience, Betts once again shows us “how poems can be enlisted to radically disrupt narrative” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)—and, in doing so, reveals the world anew.
“. . . every story becomes a multiplication,
If the naming is filled less with names than
With the best parts, the barking & everything
Else, because who among us hasn’t been
As mangy as a rescue, even on our best
Days, desiring mostly to be loved.”
—from “Rings”
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
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 equally rich—lens: dogs. He reminds us that, as our lives are broken and put back together, the only witness often barks instead of talks. In these poems, which touch on companionship in its many forms, Betts seamlessly and skillfully deploys the pantoum, ghazal, and canzone, in conversation with artists such as Freddie Gibbs and Lil Wayne.
Simultaneously philosophical and playful, Doggerel is a meditation on family, falling in love, friendship, and those who accompany us on our walk through life. Balancing political critique with personal experience, Betts once again shows us “how poems can be enlisted to radically disrupt narrative” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)—and, in doing so, reveals the world anew.
“. . . every story becomes a multiplication,
If the naming is filled less with names than
With the best parts, the barking & everything
Else, because who among us hasn’t been
As mangy as a rescue, even on our best
Days, desiring mostly to be loved.”
—from “Rings”
Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of three books of poetry, including the best-selling Felon. He is a poet, lawyer, and the founder and CEO of Freedom Reads. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his dog.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.02.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 218 mm |
| Gewicht | 268 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-324-08925-3 / 1324089253 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-324-08925-4 / 9781324089254 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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