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Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint

By Andrea Brady (NHC Fellow, 2018–19) Poetry and Bondage is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the history of poetic constraint. For millennia, poets have compared verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells, or slavery. Tracing this metaphor from Ovid through the present, Andrea Brady reveals the contributions to poetics of people who are actually … Continued

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Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either religious or in jail — or both. But what does it mean when imprisonment and evangelization actually go hand in hand, or at least appear to? What do “faith-based” prison programs mean for the constitutional separation of church and state, … Continued