Lethal theater /

"A collection of poetry that reckons with the rituals of violence that underpin the American prison system, this book asks readers to consider incarcerated bodies and the violence enacted against them and attempts to articulate this grotesque and overlooked part of American pain"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nevison, Susannah, 1984- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-70). 
505 0 |a Cell watch: strip cell -- Pastoral -- Fitness test -- Tapetum lucidum -- The bars lash light across his body, and he -- Like a widening pupil, the dark touches -- He becomes a stripped and weathered cross -- The wall between your charge and you is thin -- He imagines they're calling him home -- The winter field has forgotten what it knows -- He begins to see the dark lift, sees you -- Fawn -- American icon -- Barrel -- All the games we know -- Chamber -- Playing possum -- Where we are -- Debridement -- At Holmesburg Prison -- Panopticon -- At East Mississippi Correctional -- Euphemism -- Prisoner's cinema with Saints Catherine and Lucy -- Parables -- Prisoner's cinema with news from home -- At Oregon State Penitentiary -- Prayer for mercy -- At Folsom Women's Facility -- Procedure -- At Pritchess Detention Center -- Confinement prayer -- Lethal theater. 
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586 8 |a "Winner of the 2017 The Ohio State University Press/"The Journal" Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize" 
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