Fifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, featuring contributions from Lacy M. John
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English Pages 320 Year 2023
Table of contents :
ZEKE CALIGIURI—Foreword
EULA BISS—Introduction
JENNIFER BOWEN—A Note on Conversations
MICHAEL TORRES—Piñatas
ALICE PAIGE—A GenderPunk Love Letter
INARA VERZEMNIEKS—The Last Days of the Baldock
SARITH PEOU—The Promised Land
ANONYMOUS—For a Solidarity of Condition and Position: A Report from a Delivery Driver in Manhattan
KRISTIN COLLIER—Debt Demands a Body
ANGELA PELSTER—Saskatoons
LAUREN MARKHAM—Can We Move Our Forests in Time to Save Them?
LACY M. JOHNSON—Shape of the Wound
STEVE ALMOND—The View from Mount Failure
TM “REDD” WARREN—There Are No Bars in Rush City
KAO KALIA YANG—Kuv Niam Zoo Nkauj: My Mother Is Beautiful
KIESE LAYMON—How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance
VALERIA LUISELLI—Tell Me How It Ends
Acknowledgments