โ Scribed by Johnson, Robert
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
I thank Thais H. Miller for reading and rereading my poems with a keen eye for detail and a superb ear for sound, and of course for the wonderful poem she contributed to this volume. My thanks are also extended to Ania Dobrzanksa and Seri P. Irazola for the moving poems they contributed to the book. The hard work and generous sentiments expressed by Charles Huckelbury (Foreword), Erin George (Reflections) and Susan Nagelsen (Afterword) are greatly appreciated. The book is much better for their efforts.
Robert Johnson is the author of Poetic Justice: Reflections on the Big House, the Death House, and the American Way of Justice, winner of the L.I.F.E. Award from WilloTrees Press. His poems have appeared in Black Bear Review, The American Review, The National Catholic Reporter, Carnelian, CMC (Crime Media Culture), Dan River Anthology, Pleasant Living Magazine, and Tacenda Literary Magazine. His short story, "The Practice of Killing," won the Wild Violet Fiction Contest for 2003. His first play, "Wheel of Torture," was published in CMC (Crime Media Culture). Other works of fiction include Justice Follies: Parody from Planet Prison and The Crying Wall, which he edited with Victor Hassine, a life-sentence inmate and Ania Dobrzanska. Johnson's best known work of social science, Death Work: A Study of the Modern Execution Process, won the Outstanding Book Award of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
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