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The State of the Prisons (Paperback)
$15.03 - Save $0.79 (4%) - RRP $15.82 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The State of the PrisonsBuilding on the achievement of the award-winning collection, "Between Here and There", this collection of poems addresses the theme of imprisonment. It deals with: the actual prisons of eighteenth-century Europe; the prison of our own limited perceptions of experience, particularly of other cultures; and the prison of the mortal human body itself.
Full description- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Published: 24 April 2006
- Format: Paperback 80 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9781857547757 ISBN 10: 1857547756
- Sales rank: 713,654
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Full description for The State of the Prisons
In her third book of poems, Sinead Morrissey builds on the achievement of her award-winning collection, "Between Here and There", by expanding the lyric into new territories and admitting new voices. The theme of imprisonment is variously addressed: in the actual prisons of eighteenth-century Europe; in the prison of our own limited perceptions of experience, particularly of other cultures when abroad; in the prison of the mortal human body itself. Alongside the intimate interiors of human relationships, the poems are also interested in broader discourses, particularly history, and range in scope from the Royalist convictions of a woman wearing a Scold's Bridle during England's interregnum, to the story of the number zero. Form and content, as well as the personal and the political, are blended throughout this collection with imagination and consummate skill. As in her previous two books, travel remains a source of inspiration: one exhilarating poem details, in nine 'chapters', a six-thousand-mile train journey across China in which the conflicting faces of a rapidly changing country jostle for space. The collection ends with a compelling act of ventriloquism, as Morrissey recounts, in the first person, the life and works of the great prison reformer John Howard, and details his vision for the moral regeneration of the corrupted human soul.
