Bone Orchard : Reflections on Life Under Sentence of Death

Kat Bodrie

ISBN 13: 9798990438712

Published by Bleakhouse Publishing Jan 2025, 2025

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Neuware - In this collaborative work, death row prisoner George T. Wilkerson, criminology professor Robert Johnson, and poet Kat Bodrie use poetry, prose, and fiction to explore the dynamics of life under sentence of death. Grounded in the first-hand experiences of the authors, and enriched by interviews and surveys with prisoners on death row, Bone Orchard examines the ways a death sentence poses unique existential and emotional burdens on the condemned and those who love them. 'Like all great art,' noted one reviewer, 'this somberly magnificent book tells us things beyond our previous imaginings and makes us see familiar things in a new light. The oppressions of life we all share, and which condemned prisoners bear with a special intensity, are transmuted into rare beauty through the vivid poetry and prose of these pages.'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bone Orchard : Reflections on Life Under Sentence of Death
• Publisher: Bleakhouse Publishing Jan 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798990438712
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 12D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 254 grams

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Synopsis

In this collaborative work, death row prisoner George T. Wilkerson, criminology professor Robert Johnson, and poet Kat Bodrie use poetry, prose, and fiction to explore the dynamics of life under sentence of death. Grounded in the first-hand experiences of the authors, and enriched by interviews and surveys with prisoners on death row, Bone Orchard examines the ways a death sentence poses unique existential and emotional burdens on the condemned and those who love them. "Like all great art," noted one reviewer, "this somberly magnificent book tells us things beyond our previous imaginings and makes us see familiar things in a new light... The oppressions of life we all share, and which condemned prisoners bear with a special intensity, are transmuted into rare beauty through the vivid poetry and prose of these pages."