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Doing time: 25 years of prison writing
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Foreword / Sister Helen Prejean
Introduction / Bell Gale Chevigny
Initiations
Prison letter / M. A. Jones
Siempre / William Aberg
Dog star desperado / William Orlando
How I became a convict / Victor Hassine
Arrival / Judee Norton
Time and its terms
Reductions / William Aberg
Where or when / Jackie Ruzas
Overture / M. A. Jones
Vivaldi on the far side of the bars / M. A. Jones
Killing time / Roger Jaco
After almost twenty years / Chuck Culhane
There isn't enough bread / Chuck Culhane
Manipulation game : doing life in Pennsylvania / Diane Hamill Metzger
Giving me a second chance / Larry Bratt
Myths of darkness : the Toledo Madman and the ultimate freedom / J. R. Grindlay
Routines and ruptures
Spring / Michael Hogan
Autumn yard / Chuck Culhane
Letters come to prison / Jimmy Santiago Baca
Trina Marie / Lori Lynn McLuckie
After lights out / Barbara Saunders
Poem for the conguero in D Yard / Raymond Ringo Fernandez
In the big yard / Reginald Lewis
Old man Motown / Patrick Nolan
Tower pig / Scott A. Antworth
Night the owl interrupted / Daniel Roseboom
Work
Chronicling Sing Sing Prison / Easy Waters
Cut partner / Michael E. Saucier
Gun guard / Michael E. Saucier
Skyline turkey / Richard Stratton
Suicide! / Robert Kelsey
Reading and writing
Coming into language / Jimmy Santiago Baca
Pell grants for prisoners / Jon Marc Taylor
Tetrina / Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
Sestina : Reflections on Writing / Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
Behind the mirror's face / Paul St. John
Black Flag to the rescue / Michael E. Saucier
Players, games
I see your work / Joseph E. Sissler
Solidarity with cataracts / Vera Montgomery
Clandestine kisses / Marilyn Buck
Ryan's ruse / Jackie Ruzas
Feathers on the solar wind / David Wood
Death of a duke / Dax Xenos
Race, chance, change
First day on the job / Henry Johnson
Eleven days under siege / Paul Mulryan
Pearl got stabbed! / Charles P. Norman
Sam / Michael Wayne Hunter
Lee's time / Susan Rosenberg
Family
Ancestor / Jimmy Santiago Baca
Uncle Adam / Diane Hamill Metzger
Red dress / Barbara Saunders
Ignorance is no excuse for the law / Alejo Dao'ud Rodriguez
Our skirt / Kathy Boudin
Ball park / Henry Johnson
Norton #59900 / Judee Norton
Stranger / Anthony La Barca Falcone
After my arrest / Judith Clark
To Vladimir Mayakovsky / Judith Clark
Trilogy of journeys / Kathy Boudin
World
Prisons of our world / Allison Blake
Pilots in the war on drugs / Robert J. Moriarty
No brownstones, just alleyways and corner pockets full / J.L. Wise, Jr.
Americans / Jon Schillaci
For Sam Manzie / Jon Schillaci
Diner at midnight / David Taber
Film / David Taber
5-Spot Cafe / Henry Johnson
Melody / J.C. Amberchele
Mel / J.C. Amberchele
Getting out
Dream of escape / Henry Johnson
After all those years / Ajamu C.B. Haki
Stepping away from my father / William Aberg
To those still waiting / M.A. Jones
Break / Robert M. Rutan
Death row
For Mumia : I wonder / Kathy Boudin
Easy to kill / Jackie Ruzas
Recipe for prison pruno / Jarvis Masters
Conversations with the dead / Stephen W. Anderson
Walker's requiem / Anthony Ross
"Write a poem that makes no sense" / Judith Clark.
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9781611451443
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