Felon: Poems

Felon: PoemsWinner of the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA powerful work of lyric art. New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarcerationcanvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and graceand, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald

Rather than embracing the usual measures offered by liberal and conservative social scientists on what ails the black world and how to fix it

A rare and important book

Johnson comes in

—Biodun Jeyifo

from reading the book

The stories in this collection form part of the rich body of oral tradition which survived in the New World

to fight—perhaps points to a better future

Shuffle Along

they offer a range of frameworks for thinking about the ongoing crises of the NDR

the trip is fraught with trouble from day one

It is an experience that could change your life if you stick with it

communicating the profound simultaneity of righteous dissatisfaction with an unjust world