Indecency

By Justin Phillip Reed

Subjects: POETRY / American / African American, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Equality, African Americans, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Race identity, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, White supremacy movements, Justice, American poetry, Race discrimination, POETRY / LGBT, American literature, Social conditions, Blacks, LGBTQ poetry, Poetry, Civil rights

Description: Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful―the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation, and the prison industrial complex and unmask all the failures of the structures into which society sorts us.