Concertina : Poems / Joseph Bathanti.
| Author/creator |
Bathanti, Joseph |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First Edition. |
| Publication Info | Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2013] |
| Description | 94 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | Poems. Selections |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: The Footlocker -- Crying -- Concertina -- Sweet Random -- Doughnuts -- Night and Fog -- Freedom Drive -- The Wall -- The Dogs at Salisbury -- Teaching An Inmate to Read -- Women's Prison -- Raskolnikov -- Praise the Lord -- Drayfer's Last Number -- Moonlite Avenue -- Angel -- ECO -- This Mad Heart -- Robert Lowell -- The Sick Room -- Prison AA -- Faccia Tosta -- Transfer Day -- Shank -- That Good Old Way -- Cletis Pratt -- Recidivism -- Flate -- South -- Home -- Jury Duty -- Teddy Bear -- Poetry -- Inmates Working -- The City Jail -- Three Little Pigs -- Huron Valley -- Certainty. |
| Abstract | "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. What's more, 'Concertina,' is an outsider's meditation on the American South and the power of place to transform not only language, but to instill in the speaker the impulse to tell the story of everything his eye lights upon. Indeed, Bathanti's world is as much about the geography, the very ether, of North Carolina, as it is about prisons. His voice is contemplative, poised on a tightrope of its own making, pitched near detonation."-- From publisher's description. |
| LCCN | 2013030159 |
| ISBN | 9780881464702 (paperback : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0881464708 (paperback : acid-free paper) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | NC Stacks | PS3602.A89 A6 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |