Incarceration Nation Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror

by Hartnett, Stephen John

• ISBN13: 9780759104198
• ISBN10: 0759104190
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-05
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Use of investigative poetics to describe the American justice and penal systems.

Author Biography

Stephen John Hartnett is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at The University of Illinois.

Table of Contents

``Hudson River Abstract''	vi
Foreword	ix
Norman K. Denzin
Yvonna S. Lincoln
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: A Reader's Guide to Investigative Prison Poetry	1	(24)
Pendleton Poems
Students	25	(4)
Jailers	29	(4)
Friends	33	(10)
``Do Right and Fear Not!'': Five Meditations on San Quentin
Pronounced Kaynteen	43	(2)
Rhythmic Secrets	45	(1)
Tired of the Law	46	(5)
Selling Cheap	51	(3)
The Dignity of Baseball	54	(3)
Perhaps Some Grace
Not an Anomaly	57	(4)
Gene Debs's Hometown	61	(5)
The Nausea	66	(1)
Julius Don't Wear No Socks	67	(3)
Tired Hope	70	(3)
Emptiness Doesn't Take Notice: Supermax Poems
The Tour	73	(3)
Evan's Face	76	(3)
The Gladiators	79	(4)
Historical Vengeance	83	(4)
Transcending Schelling's Lament	87	(68)
About the Same as Commercial Fishing
The Dialectic of Perfection and Estrangement	97	(2)
The Costume Party	99	(3)
This is Mine	102	(3)
La Isla de los Alcatraces	105	(4)
An Astonishing Array	109	(8)
Love and Death in California
Entrance	117	(3)
He Was a Good Man	120	(2)
Thankful	122	(2)
Love is the Enchantment	124	(2)
An Application of Capital	126	(5)
Kant's Imagined Cosmos	131	(4)
Visiting Mario
Somewhere Near Salinas Lord	135	(2)
Falsely Accused, Wrongfully Arrested, Unjustly Jailed	137	(6)
The Bulldog Will Not Kill Today	143	(6)
``There Must Be Some Purpose''	149	(6)
Karina's Question	155	(2)
Notes	157	(24)
About the Author	181