Mercedes Eng: Prison Industrial Complex Explodes

Talon Books, 2017, Softcover, 112 pages, 23 × 14 cm

Using found text from government reports, corporate websites, and her father's prison correspondence, this long poem interrogates the possibility of a privatized prison system in Canada and explore disproportionate representations of Indigenous Canadians, people of colour, and refugees. An incredibly powerful and intimate exploration of the Canadian prison system and systematic racism through archival material and her own biography … Furthering the work of what has come before her, this is the long poem realized in an entirely new way, all while articulating some very difficult terrain.