{"product_id":"freeland-9781949944730","title":"Freeland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTraversing an impossible love story, Leigh Sugar's debut collection, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFreeland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e examines the unbreakable bond between the author and an incarcerated writer. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpanding out to touch on her own experiences with mental illness and disability, \u003cem\u003eFreeland\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949944730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100","brand":"Leigh Sugar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45302287302837,"sku":"9781949944730","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9929f863-dd43-4c71-86cd-83048c40c33b.jpg?v=1744724971","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/freeland-9781949944730","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}