...about autonomy and (against) our incarceration-drunk nation. The long poem, or sets of poems, is, or are, superb (and closely related to Wright's last book-length poem, Deepstep Come Shining); the prisoners themselves decided how they wished to appear for their photographs, and had an exceptional amount of control over the visual results, making the visual part of the book a moving claim on their behalf, rather than (as often in "documentary" photography) just a descriptive claim "about" them. This is a monument and a triumph.