Doggerel - Poems

Praise for Reginald Dwayne Betts
"[Reginald Dwayne Betts] writes masterfully, in various forms. He also illustrates the transformative power of love."
- Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post
"Searing. . . . This is a powerful work of lyric art. It is also a tour de force indictment of the carceral industrial state."
- ECarolyn Forché, New York Times Book Review
"[Reginald Dwayne] Betts is a hero to men on the inside. . . . He's a hero to anyone who believes redemption can be had and is not some abstract idea."
- John J. Lennon, Poetry Foundation
"Reginald Dwayne Betts animates and really embodies the minutiae of revision in this once-in-a-lifetime art object. . . . Betts's artistry shows and proves a necessary breaking and blurring of the lines between wandering into yesterday, wondering into tomorrow, and wrestling with the funk of today. Betts has written the twenty-first-century book that will dictate how freedom, power, and consequence are written about until the sun says enough. It is that good."
- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy : An American Memoir

About the author

Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of three books of poetry, including the best-selling Felon. He is a poet, lawyer, and the founder and CEO of Freedom Reads. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his dog.

Product details

• Authors: Reginald Dwayne Betts
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781324089254
• ISBN: 978-1-324-08925-4
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 268 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry, natural history, Nature and the natural world: general interest, POETRY / American / African American & Black, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Religious