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Article: More than just words: women's poetry and resistance at cook county jail.
- Article from:
- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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What poetry is made of is so old, so familiar, that it's easy to
forget that it's not just the words, but polyrhythmic sounds,
speech in its first endeavor (every poem breaks a silence that
had to be overcome), prismatic meanings lit by each others'
light, stained by each others' shadows.
--Adrienne Rich, What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and
Politics
JAIL IS, AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS, a liminal space. It is a place of crisis, a place where the life narratives of those who have been incarcerated are ruptured. For most of those detained in a county jail, it is a place between arrest and conviction, a ...