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Chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become a tenured professor. Horton's essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one's life for the better, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates.

Table of Contents
  • Part I. The Protagonist in Somebody Else's Melodrama
  • Part II. November 2nd and a Mother's Love
  • Dead Weight
  • Perception Versus Reality
  • Can Poetry Save a Life?
  • Change, Changed .Or. Changing?
  • And So, It's Complicated
  • Poet-In-Residence: Motivation
  • Part III.
  • 1303 T Street: Collateral Damage
  • Florida Turnpike Via 6th and Chesapeake
  • Archetypes and Disaster
  • A Day in the Life of Cell 23
  • Reevaluation

    Dead Weight

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        Publisher: Northwestern University Press
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/02/2022
        ISBN13: 9780810144637, 978-0810144637
        ISBN10: 0810144638

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become a tenured professor. Horton's essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one's life for the better, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates.

        Table of Contents
        • Part I. The Protagonist in Somebody Else's Melodrama
        • Part II. November 2nd and a Mother's Love
        • Dead Weight
        • Perception Versus Reality
        • Can Poetry Save a Life?
        • Change, Changed .Or. Changing?
        • And So, It's Complicated
        • Poet-In-Residence: Motivation
        • Part III.
        • 1303 T Street: Collateral Damage
        • Florida Turnpike Via 6th and Chesapeake
        • Archetypes and Disaster
        • A Day in the Life of Cell 23
        • Reevaluation

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