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Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration Binding:Paperback agreementsLike A Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America's incarceration system. These powerful poems of witness seek to address the oppressive systems that make up the US prison industrial complex, revealing cracks in a criminal punishment system that too often appears unchangeable. The impacts of that system reverberate through lives and across generations. The poets gathered here aim to foreground the real