The Definition of Place

by Randall Horton

Published as a result of finishing as a runner up to the 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award contest.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2006

About the author

Randall Horton is the author of a previous memoir and several books of poetry, including Pitch Dark Anarchy: Poems (TriQuarterly Books, 2013) and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street. In 2019 he served as poet-in-residence for the Civil Rights Corps in Washington, DC, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea González Poetry, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a Right to Return Fellowship from the Soze Foundation, he currently sits on the Advisory Board of PEN America’s PEN Prison Writing Program. He is a professor of English at the University of New Haven.

Reviews

[Qiana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Randall's the man. He's not even the man that sits next to the man. HE DA MAN!

[Cedric · Rating 4 out of 5]

beautiful homage to family/autobiography in verse. Horton makes characters he couldn't have known come to life like he sat in a corner and watched it all go down. patient consideration of a blood line from Depression-era Alabama to author's coming-of-age in the 70s, brought to an excellent conclusion by "The Ideology of the Lean", a poem in which the speaker emulates a cool kid's pimp strut until he "can express [his] entire belief system in a walk."

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Randall Horton has a gift. I dug his book.