📚 1 Books mentioned in "Reginald Dwayne Betts: Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 112" of People I (Mostly) Admire
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Episode: Reginald Dwayne Betts: Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 112
Published on August 21, 2023
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
The Black Poets
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But yo, somebody sent me a book, and I ended up getting this book called The Black Poets, and it changed my life. The first poem I read by Etheridge Knight was called 'For Freckle Face Gerald'—it had a line in it that says 16 years hadn't done a good job on his voice—and it talked about how the 160 okay ends up in prison and ends up being raped, and I'm reading this poem, and it's people that are dealing with this in the prison that I'm locked up in right.
During the podcast, Reginald Dwayne Betts shares how 'The Black Poets' profoundly impacted him while he was in solitary confinement, highlighting the emotional resonance of a poem by Etheridge Knight.