Prisonegg - Paperback

by Jonathan Pessant (Author)

Remembering is a prison. The poems in Prisonegg are a timeline, from contract signing to basic training, from military prison guard to the complexity prison of marriage, then divorce. They are memories of the good, the bad, and the nearly forgotten. While Fort Leavenworth and the United States Disciplinary Barracks is the central setting for the narrative, it lives beyond fact and fiction, where past can be a prison but also eggs us into being ourselves.