Prison Writing
Volume 36, Number 3
March-April 2015
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Justin Gifford’s Introduction to Focus: Prison Writing
H. Bruce Franklin’s “Prison Literature, Then and Now”
Matthew Teutstch reviews Vern E. Smith’s The Jones Men
Davu Seru’s “A Manifesto on African American Prison Literature”
Frankie Y.Bailey reviews Madeleine Gavin’s What I Want My Words To Do To You
Dennis Dworkin’s “The Prison Reflections of Antonio Gramsci”
Feature: Journey to the End of Life; On Writers and Critics
John Tytell reviews Forrest Gander’s The Trace
Christopher Leise reviews Dimitri Anastasopoulos’ Farm for Mutes
Rae Muhlstock reviews Julia Elliott’s The Wilds
Book Reviews
Brianna Noll reviews Phillip Herter’s The Fabulous Shadow
E. Ethelbert Miller reviews Gabriel Fried’s,ed. Heart of the Order: Baseball Poems
Jim Higgins reviews Damien Lincoln Ober’s Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America
Joseph D. Haske reviews Harold Jaffe’s Othello Blues
Saara Myrene Raappana reviews Mary McMyne’s Wolf Skin
Daniel M. Mendoza reviews William Hastings’, ed. Stray Dogs: Writing from the Other America
Sarah White reviews Neil Shepard’s Hominid UP
Benjamin Schreier reviews Jean Luc-Nancy’s Identity: Fragments, Frankness
Marc Jampole reviews Mark Weiss’As Luck Would Have It
George Murphy reviews George Held’s Culling: New & Selected Nature Poems
Vilmos Voigt reviews Mikko Salmela’s True Emotions
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