Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror

by Stephen John Hartnett

Book Overview

Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research. Based on ten years of teaching in, writing about, and protesting at prisons across America, Harnett weaves together the hopes of prisoners, their families, and friends with the stories of activist communities struggling against the death penalty,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759104204
• ISBN13: 9780759104204
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"