The art of the outlaw poets

Max Nelson surveys the work of "outlaw poets" ranging from François Villon to Merle Haggard, whose writings balance defiance with shame: "starved, browbeaten figures for whom pariahdom, persecution, imprisonment and homelessness were both facts of life and the materials out of which they made their art. Outlaw poets are what certain prison writers become when their term is up — when they’ve been let loose into a world that spurns them and whose values they reject."

April 3, 2016

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