Freeland
Leigh Sugar
Traversing an impossible love story, Leigh Sugar’s debut collection, Freeland examines the unbreakable bond between the author and an incarcerated writer.
Drawing critical connections between her personal and familial history, the Jewish diaspora, the racial imaginary of whiteness, and the philosophical and literal evolution of the prison machine, Leigh Sugar obsessively searches form and language to communicate what happens in the U.S. mass incarceration system. Refreshing and honest narrative poems follow the gradual dissolution of a once intense love that begins to blur amidst the constant crush of the speaker’s loneliness. How do you choose between loving someone who exists in your life only in shadow, and walking away, knowing they don’t have the same choice?
Expanding out to touch on her own experiences with mental illness and disability, Freeland is a devastating and urgent testimony of love across the physical, political, and social boundaries of the prison industrial complex, interrogating questions of abolition, race, solitude, and memory in poems that simultaneously embody and resist formal structures.
Author - Leigh Sugar.
Narrator - Leigh Sugar.
Published Date - Monday, 27 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2025 Leigh Sugar ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Traversing an impossible love story, Leigh Sugar’s debut collection, Freeland examines the unbreakable bond between the author and an incarcerated writer. Drawing critical connections between her personal and familial history, the Jewish diaspora, the racial imaginary of whiteness, and the philosophical and literal evolution of the prison machine, Leigh Sugar obsessively searches form and language to communicate what happens in the U.S. mass incarceration system. Refreshing and honest narrative poems follow the gradual dissolution of a once intense love that begins to blur amidst the constant crush of the speaker’s loneliness. How do you choose between loving someone who exists in your life only in shadow, and walking away, knowing they don’t have the same choice? Expanding out to touch on her own experiences with mental illness and disability, Freeland is a devastating and urgent testimony of love across the physical, political, and social boundaries of the prison industrial complex, interrogating questions of abolition, race, solitude, and memory in poems that simultaneously embody and resist formal structures. Author - Leigh Sugar. Narrator - Leigh Sugar. Published Date - Monday, 27 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Leigh Sugar ©.
Language:
English
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 19
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
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Chapter 26
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Chapter 27
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Chapter 29
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Chapter 32
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Chapter 33
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Chapter 34
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Chapter 36
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Chapter 37
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Chapter 39
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Chapter 40
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Chapter 41
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Chapter 42
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Chapter 51
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