Twenty-One Birthdays - Paperback
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Half of the people imprisoned in America are parents, which means over two million children grow up with their parents in cages. In his essay, Twenty-One Birthdays, Kennedy Amenya Gisege celebrates a lifetime of birthdays separated from his daughter. Each year, he makes a quiet offering to a photo on the wall. The years accumulate until, at last, she is grown and he remains behind bars. Tender, heart-wrenching, and loving, Gisege's work illuminates the intimate human cost of prison's severings.
Kennedy Amenya Gisege is a visual artist, poet, and writer and author of The Liturgy of Smell (Red Bird Chapbooks). He's co-editor of American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion (Coffee House Press, 2023) His work appears in AGNI, Bangalore Review, and South Dakota Review, among other journals. He has written two books under the pen name Ken Amen.
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