{"product_id":"sonnets-from-a-cell-bradley-peters-9781771316132","title":"Sonnets from a Cell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Longlisted 2024 Raymond Souster Award* Longlisted 2024 Gerald Lampert Award* Winner 2023 Alcuin Award* Poems for and about the incarcerated.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters' debut \u003ci\u003eSonnets from a Cell\u003c\/i\u003e mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is tough and tender, that is accountable both to Peters' own days \"caught between the past and nothing\" and to the structures that sentence so many \"to lose.\" Written behind doors our culture too often keeps closed, this is poetry reaching out for moments of longing, wild joy and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on his own experiences as a teenager and young adult in and out of the Canadian prison system, Peters has written both a personal reckoning and a damning and eloquent account of our violence- and enforcement-obsessed capitalist and patriarchal cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bradley Peters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771316136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771316132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brick Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.40d","brand":"Bradley Peters","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190690967807,"sku":"9781771316132","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1d6c1abd-0b99-4032-8ac3-8d5fc26e6d19.jpg?v=1690871869","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sonnets-from-a-cell-bradley-peters-9781771316132","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}