{"id":7828,"date":"2015-09-04T13:24:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=7828"},"modified":"2024-11-14T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:25:24","slug":"bastards-reagan-era","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/bastards-reagan-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastards of the Reagan Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"Bastards<\/a><\/p>\n

paper \u2022 72 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-65-9<\/p>\n

Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch a Special Video from the Author<\/a><\/p>\n

Read a Review of Bastards of the Reagan Era<\/em> in Muzzle Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Read a Review of Bastards of the Reagan Era<\/em> in the Kenyon Review<\/em><\/a>
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\nBastards of the Reagan Era <\/em>by Reginald Dwayne Betts is the winner of the 2016 PEN New England Award in Poetry, the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year for Poetry, a winner of the National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s (NCCD) 2016 Media for a Just Society Award, the 2016 Housatonic Book Award, Bronze Winner of a Human Relations Indie Book Award, was shortlisted for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award, made Library Journal’s<\/em> “Best Books 2015: Poetry” list, and was a finalist for both the 2016 Firecracker Award in Poetry and the 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry.<\/p>\n

Bastards of the Reagan Era<\/em><\/h1>\n

Reginald Dwayne Betts<\/h2>\n

The poet Raymond Patterson once asked \u201cBut who can conceive \/ Of cities lost in a blackman?\u201d That\u2019s what these poems are about: what does it mean to be nearly broken by something you love? Bastards of the Reagan Era<\/em> is a challenge, a confrontation of the hard realities that frame America. These poems question an incongruous America: \u201cA black boy says sorbet \/ is one thing\u2014a black boy says get the fuck out the car is quite another.\u201d Within these poems, we see the city as distant lover, we hear \u201cthe sound that comes from all \/ the hurt & want that leads a man to turn his back to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

“For the City That Nearly Broke Me”, from Bastards of the Reagan Era<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Stress this: the lit end\nof anything will\nburn you. & that is just\njust a slick way of\nsaying: running will\nnever save you. This\nman's first son caved, fell\nto the pressure, to\nthe barrel's indent\nagainst his temple.\nA body given\nback to asphalt.\nStress this: we never\ngave a fuck, not 'bout\nMalik or how the\nbullet didn't split\nthe air, but split those\nedged-up, precise hairs\nof his caesar, to save\nthe man the burden\nof years fearing death.\n[\/column]\nAbout the Author<\/a>\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[column col=”1\/4″] paper \u2022 72 pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-65-9 Add to Cart Watch a Special Video from the Author Read a Review of Bastards of the Reagan Era in Muzzle Magazine Read a Review of Bastards of the Reagan Era in the Kenyon Review [\/column] [column col=”3\/4″] Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7828","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20385,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7828\/revisions\/20385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}