Concertina - Softcover

Bathanti, Joseph

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9780881464702: Concertina
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0881464708 ISBN 13: 9780881464702
Publisher: Mercer University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Joseph Bathanti is poet laureate of North Carolina and professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University. He is author of seven books of poetry, two novels, and a collection of stories. HALF OF WHAT I SAY IS MEANINGLESS, winner of the 2012 Will D. Campbell Award for Creative Nonfiction, is forthcoming from Mercer University Press.

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Publisher
Mercer University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0881464708
ISBN 13 
9780881464702
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
94
Rating
  • 4.47 out of 5 stars
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