Off the Cuffs

Poetry by and about the Police

Jackie Sheeler, Bob Holman

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Soft Skull Press
01 March 2003

Poetry by individual poets; Literary studies: poetry & poets

The first collection of poetry that allows us to see police officers not just as brutalizers or heroes but as complicated human beings in a position that is sometimes terrifying, sometimes rewarding and often questionable.

On a daily basis police save lives, take lives, and risk their own lives. Existing books on police and policing give us a single point-of-view, a black and white story that portrays cops as either saints or villains. This exploration of the dynamic point of understanding makes Off The Cuffs unique. Divided into four sections--Eyewitnesses, Insiders, Victims & Perpetrators, and Dreamers--Off The Cuffs gives us a diversity of voices, telling stories of fear, apprehension, love, brutality, death, sorrow, joy, hope and resolve.

Out of this multiplicity of voices- convicts, police, bike messengers and established poets such as Charles Simic, Martin Espada, Kevin Young and Colette Inez - emerges a dialogue showing us the infinite shades of blue that surround the profession and the profession's relationship to the society they are sworn to protect. Off The Cuffs adds an important and unheard piece to this body of work- the usually disparate voices of cops, prisoners and everyone in between engaging with one another within the pages of one book.

By: Jackie Sheeler, Bob Holman
Imprint: Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 1mm, Width: 1mm,
Weight: 401g
ISBN: 9781887128810
ISBN 10: 1887128816
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 01 March 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

Jackie Sheeler is a lifelong New Yorker and a lifelong juggler- poet, performance artist, songwriter, wordrocker, publisher, blogger, producer and webmaster. Her work has been widely anthologized in New York Quarterly, Rattapallax, Painted Bride Quarterly, Phoebe, Slant, and many other journals. She has taught workshops at The Writer's Voice, as well as at drug rehabs and prisons (which led to her holding for a time the title ""Poet Laureate of Riker's Island"").

Reviews for Off the Cuffs: Poetry by and about the Police

This amalgam of sometimes tender, often brutal and always engrossing short poems explores the relationships between cops and civilians, victims and protectors, perpetrators and oppressors.