Title: Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Description: “Betts doesn’t just have a powerful story to tell. He is a true poet who can write a ghazal that sings, howls, rhymes, and resonates in memory years after it was first read.”
—Jericho Brown, <em>On the Seawall</em>

“…these poems in turn sear and moan, are impossibly restless and at times starkly silent.”
—<em>American Poet</em>

“There’s an authority in Betts’s voice that carries us, and his voice is governed by boldness and consonance.”
—<em>Devil’s Lake</em>

“…restrained though fierce talent…surprising and emotionally resonant…”
—<em>Publishers Weekly</em>
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, African American authors, 21st century poetry