Date of Birth: Poems

By Shawn R. Jones

The poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse, and addiction, incest, and infidelities of the body and mind. Yet the world depicted by Shawn R. Jones has moments of humor and playfulness--for example, in a litany of indelible nicknames of the members of her childhood cohort in Atlantic City. If Date of Birth is heart-wrenching in its journalistic reporting of suffering, it is also a testament to the strength and resilience of the figures it portrays.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892555696
• ISBN13: 9780892555697
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.0"