Indecency is boldly
and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin
Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and
injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy
and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender,
daring, and insightful—the author unpacks his intimacies,
weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation,
and the prison industrial complex and unmask all the failures of the
structures into which society sorts us.
