Description: It illuminates the ways in which we all are relegated to cells or boundaries, whether we want to acknowledge it or not.
Brief description: Randall Horton's past honors include the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and most recently a GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction for Hook: A Memoir. The author of numerous books, he is a member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders, which received the 2018 American Book Award in Oral Literature. He is associate professor of English at the University of New Haven.
Review Quotes:
In his powerfully evocative collection, Randall Horton immerses us in the journey of {#289-128} with lush yet stark poems that cast a spell to break all spells. To question the story of incarceration is to question the ways in which we too are held captive within coded spaces and social contracts, 'trapped / in a maze of identity & boundaries.' Horton's undaunted lyricism shatters this hall of mirrors with a voice transcendent, challenging us to uncover a deeper empathy within and without bounds, where 'the voiceless are alive, too.'
--Monica Ong, author of Silent Anatomies