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