"Angola, America, winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021, takes its name from the USA's largest maximum-security prison. Seperated and connected by the Atlantic Ocean, a man living on death row and a woman living on a narrowboat in the UK, become friends. The prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as 'Angola' after the former slave plantation on its territory, continues to be a profitable 18,000 acre farm. With tenderness and rage, the poems in Angola, America sing with urgency as they breach the silences surrounding the ongoing horrors of capital punishment and our criminal (In)justice systems."--back cover.