Concertina : poems / Joseph Bathanti.
"In 1976, Joseph Bathanti left his home in Pittsburgh for a fourteen month sojourn as a VISTA volunteer with the North Carolina Department of Corrections ... Concertina recounts in lyrical sweep his entry into the surreal, brutal, and often terrifyingly beautiful netherworld of convicts and their keepers"--Page 4 of cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780881464702
- ISBN: 0881464708
- Physical Description: 94 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2013]
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Footlocker 1 -- Crying 4 -- Concertina 6 -- Sweet Random 8 -- Doughnuts 10 -- Night and Fog 13 -- Freedom Drive 15 -- Wall 17 -- Dogs at Salisbury 19 -- Teaching An Inmate to Read 21 -- Women's Prison 23 -- Raskolnikov 25 -- Praise the Lord 27 -- Drayfer's Last Number 29 -- Moonlite Avenue 32 -- Angel 35 -- ECO 37 -- This Mad Heart 39 -- Robert Lowell 42 -- Sick Room 44 -- Prison AA 46 -- Faccia Tosta 48 -- Transfer Day 51 -- Shank 53 -- That Good Old Way 54 -- Cletis Pratt 56 -- Recidivism 58 -- Flate 61 -- South 63 -- Home 66 -- Jury Duty 68 -- Teddy Bear 72 -- Poetry 76 -- Inmates Working 79 -- City Jail 81 -- Three Little Pigs 84 -- Huron Valley 87 -- Certainty 89 -- Huntersville Prison 92.
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- Subject:
- Prisons > Poetry.
North Carolina > Poetry. - Genre:
- Poetry.
Available copies
- 6 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statesville Main Library | 811.6 BAT (Text) | 33114023734007 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Elkin Public Library | 811.6 BAT (Text) | 30499100477882 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | 811.6 BAT (Text) | 900000000291998 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Pasquotank Library Main | 811 BAT (Text) | 39488101690826 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Watauga County Public Library | 811.6 BAT (Text) | 50502011474297 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Yancey County Public Library | NFIC 811 BAT (Text) | 33333002869085 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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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 Corrections ... Concertina recounts in lyrical sweep his entry into the surreal, brutal, and often terrifyingly beautiful netherworld of convicts and their keepers"--Page 4 of cover.
