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Print: $13.11 Download: $2.00 Poetry and art by the Snell sisters, inspired by game theory and asking the question, "who will rat on whom?" Don Zirilli, who judged "Prisoner's Dilemma" the winning manuscript in the Lopside Press 2008 Chapbook Competition, says "Richard Lovelace defiantly proclaimed that 'stone walls do not a prison make' but the implication is that we make our own prisons and they can be anywhere: a car, a house, your own body, a sunlit street. Cheryl's poems are letters from prison, from all these prisons and more, but the book is not confining. Over and over again, we are given hints about how to make the most of our stay. I spent a good deal of time wondering just what the 'prisoner's dilemma' might be. I never found a definitive answer, but the book left me with a strong impression that the dilemma is whether or not to accept one's sentence. Do you become Houdini or King Rat? Typical of a poet, Cheryl wants to be both at once, and in these pages, it seems almost possible."
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