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Exit, Civilian (National Poetry)by Idra Novey
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at prisons that have opened, closed, and transformed to examine how the stigma of incarceration has altered American families, including her own. Novey writes of the expanding prison complex that was once a field and imagines what’s next for the civilians who enter and exit it each day. Review:"Novey (The Next Country) devotes her spare, angry and careful second book, selected for the National Poetry Series by Patricia Smith, to imprisonment: incarceration as a metaphor, the literal troubles of inmates in the U.S., and, in the book's last segments, the infamous carceral spaces — a Brazilian island, a Valparaiso jail — used by tyrannical Latin American regimes. Novey has taught in prisons in New York State, and some terse prose poems reflect her experience: 'In the shine of a car outside the prison my reflection gets wider until it splits.' Her attention, however, remains with the people who have to live inside: their patience, lost opportunities, humiliations, and final dignity. Novey's best work complements (rather than trying to become) journalism, and it demands quotation. 'To be quiet in a prison, Janet said, is to admit that you're there.' The work may seem slight, or distractingly miniature, beside the work of other poets who visited prisons (C.D. Wright) or who have spent time inside (Dwayne Betts). As the poems slide between prison as figure for anyone (the excellent 'House Arrest,' about family life) and prison as daily reality for some, Novey's goals can get in each other's way. And yet the book reveals superb acts of attention, by a writer whose reliable moral sense matches her first-rate ear." Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
About the AuthorIdra Novey is the author of The Next Country and has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the PEN Translation Fund. Her translations include Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H., (New Directions, 2012). She has taught in the Bard College Prison Initiative and in Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The Little Prison Then, before understanding, my heart went Civilian Exiting the Facilities Riding By on a Sunday Aspect Overhead Parole The Little Prison Responds All Ceremonies Start with Inspection Meanwhile the Watermelon Seed Titles in the City Library white as hair whitens. Then, before understanding Eighteen Hours of Daylight As Charged House Arrest The County Courthouse in the Winter The Itinerant Grand Jury, the Sound of Leaves Slide Show Table for Six Parole Hearing Before They Came for Us Hearsay The Little Prison Responds to the City Titles in the City Library my heart went white as hair whitens On Bafflement The Etymological Beginning Recent Findings The Metaphysics of Furniture The Lava Game Instead of The Little Prison Responds If Vallejo Hadn't Died in Paris Riot Titles in the City Library Then, before understanding, my heart went O Caldeirão do Diabo Memorias do Cárcere Fist and After, El Cinzano A Maça no Oscuro The Guest The Ex-Cárcel of Valparaíso The Last Beep and Door Notes What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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