Concertina Poems |
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| Author:
| Bathanti, Joseph |
| ISBN: | 978-0-88146-470-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Mercer University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.