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Habeas Corpus

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Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, and Aileen Wuornos. A witch, a pirate, a slave who poisoned her master. A serial killer, a Quaker, a case of mistaken identity. The earliest to be electrocuted, gassed, and lethally injected; the last to be publicly hanged. In her first book, acclaimed poet Jill McDonough gives us fifty sonnets, each about a legal execution in American history, poignant with the factual, with words and actions reported by eyewitnesses and spoken by the condemned—yet so limpidly framed that at moments one forgets the skill that crystallizes all this into authentic poetry.

Pages: 65

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Salt Publishing

Release: October 15, 2008

ISBN: 1844714721

ISBN 13: 9781844714728

Habeas Corpus

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Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, and Aileen Wuornos. A witch, a pirate, a slave who poisoned her master. A serial killer, a Quaker, a case of mistaken identity. The earliest to be electrocuted, gassed, and lethally injected; the last to be publicly hanged. In her first book, acclaimed poet Jill McDonough gives us fifty sonnets, each about a legal execution in American history, poignant with the factual, with words and actions reported by eyewitnesses and spoken by the condemned—yet so limpidly framed that at moments one forgets the skill that crystallizes all this into authentic poetry.

Pages: 65

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Salt Publishing

Release: October 15, 2008

ISBN: 1844714721

ISBN 13: 9781844714728

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