“Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.”
Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives
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“It's a fairly unique position; to have been in charge of prison funding and then to have been an inmate. I wish I'd been more generous.”
As quoted in The Times (3 June 2000).
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