num_pages: 64
description: An inmate on Florida's death row writes piercingly of incarceration, racism and growing up.Stephen Todd Booker, an inmate on Florida's death row, writes piercingly of incarceration. But he also sings, in a voice at once jagged and polished, of racism in Brooklyn and the South and of growing up black in 20th-century America, as he examines his life experience with metaphors that test the limits of language.
language: English
title: Tug
titlecomplete: Tug (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Wesleyan University Press