Concertina (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780881464702)

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.

Author: Joseph Bathanti
ISBN-10: 0881464708
ISBN-13: 9780881464702
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2013
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
Award: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Finalist