Felon: Poems Education / Multicultural Education / Student Life & Student Affairs / Urban a peregrine falcon named Fury

a peregrine falcon named Fury

both were fatherless

the world sang along

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATUREA debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride

The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

Felon: Poems Education / Multicultural Education / Student Life & Student Affairs / Urban a peregrine falcon named FuryIn fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarcerationcanvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and graceand, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of post incarceration existence in traditional and newfound forms, from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court