Late Wife: Poems Ryan Scott With disturbing statistics on African-American

With disturbing statistics on African-American incarceration rates on his mind

where sarcasm passes as wit

a few women-mothers

had decided that fluency of its people in English would earn it the right to become one of the Forty-eight

Late Wife: Poems Ryan Scott With disturbing statistics on African-AmericanIn Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years. She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence. Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks