Concertina

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 10/31/2013
ISBN: 9780881464702
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
Award: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Finalist