Description: A collection of poetry that reckons with the rituals of violence that underpin the American prison system.
Review Quotes: "Susannah Nevison's Lethal Theater is a powerful, nuanced accounting of the physical and spiritual price violence exacts on its victims and perpetrators. This stunning lyric meditation on imprisonment relentlessly pushes the limits of mercy in asking us to bear witness to the ways in which we inflict pain on others in places where 'the dark touches / everything, spreading its wound.'" --Erika Meitner