Doggerel [book club] : poems
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2025]
Physical Description
93 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series
Summary
Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts continually examines the ways in which prison shapes and transforms American life. In "Doggerel," he does so through the lens of dogs, and how often they bear witness to the breaking and repairing of lives. The poems touch on family, love, friendship, and companionship.
Notes
Illustrations on lining pages.
Holds allowed on multiple copies. Please place each hold separately.
Contents
- This future
- On joy
- Losing weight
- Will they reminisce over you
- Race
- Loss
- Rings
- Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Lavaggio
- Too bad the only suffering ain't weeping
- 36 empty glasses of wine
- Chrysanthemum
- Jethro's corner
- Bike ride
- Roadkill
- Guns, dogs, & heroin
- In a station of the Metro (don't you remember)
- We never say goodbye
- Tarragon
- What we know
- Bread without salt
- Cascade
- Running
- Surrender
- Solstice
- Burlesque
- This morning
- Will they reminisce over you
- San Giorgio
- Exhibiting forgiveness
- Grief
- For some things there may be forgiveness still
- Arriving late
- Daffodils
- The things we carry
- That's the sound
- Moving fast backwards
- Otherwise
- Of all this
- Apologia to the stag
- Arches
- Will she think this makes me good
- A chaos of welcome
- Caffe Saccari
- Canary
- Memorial hoops
- White peonies
- Balisong.