Prison Industrial Complex Explodes

Mercedes Eng (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2018
Talon Books,Canada (Verlag)
978-1-77201-181-4 (ISBN)

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Critical and socially engaged, activist and community oriented, a formally innovative second book of poetry from a strong feminist poet.

Using found text from government reports, corporate websites, and her father's prison correspondence, this long poem interrogates the possibility of a privatized prison system in Canada and explore disproportionate representations of Indigenous Canadians, people of color, and refugees.Mercedes Eng is a teacher and writer in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish land.

Mercedes Eng is a teacher and writer in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. She is the author of Mercenary English (CUE Books, 2013; Mercenary Press, 2016), a book that uses documentary poetics to explore violence and resistance in the Downtown Eastside. Her work has appeared in West Coast Line, Canada and Beyond, The Capilano Review, Geist, Jacket 2, on the sides of Burrard and Granville bridges as contributions to public art projects, and in the collective-produced movement-based chapbooks, r/ally (No One Is Illegal), Survalliance, and M'aidez (Press Release).

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	163 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-77201-181-9 / 1772011819
ISBN-13	978-1-77201-181-4 / 9781772011814
Zustand	Neuware