Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration Binding:Paperback she is overwhelmed by crushing

she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity

Black art provides refuge

just decades earlier

We say we want community

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Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration Binding:Paperback she is overwhelmed by crushingLike A Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America's incarceration system. These powerful poems of witness seek to address the oppressive systems that make up the US prison industrial complex, revealing cracks in a criminal punishment system that too often appears unchangeable. The impacts of that system reverberate through lives and across generations. The poets gathered here aim to foreground the real