{"product_id":"doggerel-poems","title":"Doggerel: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of Library Journal’s Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eOne of Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of The Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Satisfyingly rich meditations on companionship, loss, and more.” ―New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoggerel is a revelatory meditation on Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability from one of poetry’s boldest voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReginald 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“. . . every story becomes a multiplication,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the naming is filled less with names than\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the best parts, the barking \u0026amp; everything\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElse, because who among us hasn’t been\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs mangy as a rescue, even on our best\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDays, desiring mostly to be loved.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e―from “Rings”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53777329783091,"sku":"9781324134398","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/1108\/1267\/files\/9781324134398.jpg?v=1785544877","url":"https:\/\/slantoflightbooks.com\/products\/doggerel-poems","provider":"Slant of Light Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}