Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; ""Hudson River Abstract""; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Reader's Guide to Investigative Prison Poetry; Pendleton Poems; I: Students; II: Jailers; III: Friends; ""Do Right and Fear Not!"": Five Meditations on San Quentin; I: Pronounced Kaynteen; II: Rhythmic Secrets; III: Tired of the Law; IV: Selling Cheap; V: The Dignity of Baseball; Perhaps Some Grace; I: Not an Anomaly; II: Gene Debs's Hometown; III: The Nausea; IV: Julius Don't Wear No Socks; V: Tired Hope; Emptiness Doesn't Take Notice: Supermax Poems
I: The TourII: Evan's Face; III: The Gladiators; IV: Historical Vengeance; Transcending Schelling's Lament; About the Same as Commercial Fishing; I: The Dialectic of Perfection and Estrangement; II: The Costume Party; III: This is Mine; IV: La Isla de los Alcatraces; V: An Astonishing Array; Love and Death in California; I: Entrance; II: He was a Good Man; III: Thankful; IV: Love is the Enchantment; V: An Application of Capital; VI: Kant's Imagined Cosmos; Visiting Mario; I: Somewhere Near Salinas Lord; II: Falsely Accused, Wrongfully Arrested, Unjustly Jailed
III: The Bulldog will not Kill TodayIV: ""There must be Some Purpose""; Karina's Question; Notes; About the Author
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