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Plexiglass pays homage to the millions of adults and children affected by mass incarceration in ""the land of the free."" Through this collection of interrelated poems, some of which speak the words of men and women sequestered from view in jails and prisons, the story within the story within the story of the prison industrial complex gradually unfolds in the unflinching voice of a fearless, critically acclaimed writer.

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Plexiglass is a beautiful dispatch from the sea line of human oblivion; where teacher and student find insights like a graveyard shift for a church pianist. A smile inching through the corridors of a prison industrial complex; our humanity is repressed, but still lightning. Here is revealed the physics of a trench where poems become veins turning empty space into flesh. Tongo Eisen-Martin, winner of the American Book Award, author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes This book has always been necessary, because poetry exists completely outside discourse, it exists in the heavens and it exists outside logic, and it is here to repair the failed part of our logic. And now more than ever in the summer of 2020 and from now on, this book is indispensable. This is a book that should be read by every person to whom these invisibles are unknown. It must be read in schools, in parks, in bed, and in all those spaces that are not occupied by the disappeared, because they are not in schools, or in parks, or in beds. Valerie Mejer Caso, author of This Blue Novel

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Margo Perin is the author of The Opposite of Hollywood and the contributing editor of Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail and How I Learned to Cook & Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships. She is the poet of San Francisco's public memorial Spiral of Gratitude (collaboration with artist Shimon Attie/BALEAF) and the Sonoma Area Coordinator for California Poets in the Schools. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, Margo Perin has been featured by BBC News, BBC World Service Outlook, O, The Oprah Magazine, Heyday/PEN's Fightin' Words, The Press Democrat, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mexico's El Petit Journal, Holland's Psycologie, and on TV and radio. She has received awards from the Creative Work Fund, Poets & Writers, the California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Creative Sonoma, and Vintners Community Foundation.

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