{"product_id":"doggerel-poems","title":"Doggerel: Poems","description":"One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025\nOne of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025\n\nDoggerel is a revelatory meditation on Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability from one of poetry’s boldest voices.\nReginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic―but equally rich―lens: dogs. He reminds us that, as our lives are broken and put back together, the only witness often barks instead of talks. In these poems, which touch on companionship in its many forms, Betts seamlessly and skillfully deploys the pantoum, ghazal, and canzone, in conversation with artists such as Freddie Gibbs and Lil Wayne.\nSimultaneously philosophical and playful, Doggerel is a meditation on family, falling in love, friendship, and those who accompany us on our walk through life. Balancing political critique with personal experience, Betts once again shows us “how poems can be enlisted to radically disrupt narrative” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)―and, in doing so, reveals the world anew.\n“. . . every story becomes a multiplication,\nIf the naming is filled less with names than\nWith the best parts, the barking \u0026amp; everything\nElse, because who among us hasn’t been\nAs mangy as a rescue, even on our best\nDays, desiring mostly to be loved.”\n―from “Rings”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1324089253\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1324089253.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Betts, Reginald Dwayne\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41457276878906,"sku":"DBV.1324089253.G","price":7.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1324089253-0.jpg?v=1781113789","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/doggerel-poems","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}