Book Bundle: Disfigured Hours and Twenty-One Birthdays
$25.00
As a special celebration of the first two titles published by Lost Kite Editions, we’re offering a special book bundle discount. You can order both B Batchelor’s Disfigured Hours and Kennedy Amenya Gisege’s Twenty-One Birthdays for $25 (original price $32).
About Disfigured Hours: B Batchelor writes, with unsparing precision, about life in a cage. These twenty-four poems – each with sixty syllables, representing the minutes in the hour – offer a record of both human and inhumane moments experienced during more than two decades behind bars. In lyric, haunting, and stark detail, Batchelor conjures not the prison stereotypes we know from pop culture, but the full, textured, inner landscape of those it contains.
About Twenty-One Birthdays: 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.
Quantity
ISBN
979-8-9935701-1-2
979-8-9935701-0-5
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
03/01/26
Pages
64
Trim Size
4.57 x 7
"B Batchelor's Disfigured Hours makes of poetic constraint an indictment. Here, time is made material: shaped, bruised, and bruising. The poems are tender, direct, and through them–no, with them we are marked, we are changed."
DONIKA KELLY
"Kennedy Amenya Gisege’s moving Twenty-One Birthdays follows an incarcerated father, year after year, as he celebrates his daughter’s birthdays in absentia. Gisege has written an exquisite work that will, at once, break and mend your heart."
NICOLE SEALEY
"B Batchelor’s poems are dazzling, incantatory, alive. Disfigured Hours is a lasting document of self-assertion and witness, of endurance and light."
KAVEH AKBAR
"In an act of extraordinary creative will, Kennedy Amenya Gisege defines a whole world from one single day, each year. Time in this world is only twenty-one days, but feels infinite––a world not confined but built on possibility and surprise: It's these twenty-one slight shifts that telescope our empathy, and prove the power of Gisege's fine poetic sensibilities."
HEID E. ERDRICH
· About the Author ·
B Batchelor & Kennedy Amenya Gisege
B Batchelor is a poet and artist, a 2025 Writing Freedom Fellow, a 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize in Poetry finalist, and recipient of multiple awards from PEN America. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Columbia Journal, cream city review, and elsewhere. He lives in Minnesota.
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Kennedy Amenya Gisege is an accomplished visual artist and poet whose work appears in Agni, Bangalore Review, and others. His chapbook The Liturgy of Smell, was published by Red Bird Chapbooks. He’s co-editor of American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion (Coffee House Press). He has written several books under the pen name Ken Amen. Gisege is incarcerated in the Minnesota Correctional Facility–Faribault.
Photo by Emily Baxter
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