Indecency

Winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful--the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation, and the prison industrial complex and unmask all the failures of the structures into which society sorts us.Author: Justin Phillip ReedPublisher: Coffee House PressPublished: 05/08/2018Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9781566895149Award: National Book Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/16/2018About the AuthorJustin Phillip Reed was born and raised in South Carolina. His work appears in African American Review, Best American Essays, Callaloo, the Kenyon Review, Obsidian