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Book

Lethal theater

Call Number

  • 811 N528 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2019]

Physical Description

vi, 73 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"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"--

Contents

  • 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.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.