Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson

$17.00

How free are we as Americans if we are living under a justice system that is fundamentally unfair?  Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, is an attorney who has successfully defended some of society's most vulnerable and oppressed people in landmark cases before the Supreme Court. In Just Mercy, he asks us to contemplate a system in which children, the poor, the developmentally disabled and African Americans receive the harshest punishments, including the death penalty. This book touched me and made me think about what is being done to "make America a safer place." We are not safer in a system this unjust. 

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry) (Paperback)

By Jack Spicer, Peter Gizzi (Editor), Kevin Killian (Editor)

$27.95

"Like most primitive cultures, New York has no feeling for nonsense. Wit is as far as they can go. That is what I miss the most, other than you, and what is slowly pulling my identity apart. No one speaks Martian, no one insults people arbitrarily, there is, to put it simply and leave it, no violence of the mind and of the heart, no one screams in the elevator." - Jack Spicer, in a letter to Allen Joyce, regarding New York City in 1955.