Randall Horton

Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

Chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become a tenured professor. Horton's essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one's life for the better, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9780810144637
• ISBN-10: 0810144638
• Artikelnr.: 61931602

Autorenporträt

RANDALL HORTON is the author of a previous memoir and several books of poetry, including Pitch Dark Anarchy: Poems (TriQuarterly Books, 2013) and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street. In 2019 he served as poet-in-residence for the Civil Rights Corps in Washington, DC, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea González Poetry, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a Right to Return Fellowship from the Soze Foundation, he currently sits on the Advisory Board of PEN America's PEN Prison Writing Program. He is a professor of English at the University of New Haven.