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Exit, Civilian (The National Poetry Series)
Exit Civilian - The National Poetry Series Author:Idra Novey In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at prisons that have opened, closed, and transformed to examine how the stigma of incarceration... more » has altered American families, including her own. Novey writes of the expanding prison complex that was once a field and imagines what?s next for the civilians who enter and exit it each day.« less