Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry Ser.) Book

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