Reflections of My Mind, Doin' Time

Reflections of My Mind, Doin' Time
Author: Peter Halstead Hudgens
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2006-03
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 0595390196

A selection of poems written while the author did time in the Arizona state prison system for offenses stemming from his addiction to methamphetamine. A few of the poems are set to music.

"Pimp: Reflection of My Life "

Author: Noble Dee
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1477279326

In our society today, although used out their original contexts, the words Pimp and Pimpin have been embraced whole-heartedly by todays hip hop generation and frequently used in slang to describe a motif of a newly set standard of flamboyant living. However, in his debut release, Donald Ray Lavan (AKA Noble Dee) provides the true definition of both words, separating the real and the facts from the faade and the fiction of todays controversial terminology. Best of all, he describes in very minute details, what the Game (Pimpin) was like for him in his era the 1960s to Y2K (The New Millienium). In this tell all non-fiction: Noble Dee illustrates, in a very blaxploitation mannerhis personal existence in the game. Not only does he exploit his successes, he also exposes the very grim details of the life; both in tones whereas you the reader bask in his glory, and share his pains; the pain of possibly regret in the life that he cherished for almost four calendar decades. Wholeheartedly, Noble Dee expresses how his own glorification of the game, indirectly allured his first born daughter into a position to be manipulated and exploited by pimps, just as he had manipulated and exploited so many daughters throughout his 35 years plus career. Not since Robert Beck revealed to the masses the vivid street Realities of a Pimps Life in his book Pimp: The Story of My Life By Iceberg Slim has the entrenching truth behind the lifestyle-termed pimpin been exposed to this degree. Thus, the primary title Pimp:Reflections of My Life. www.JumpInterstateN.biz

The Reflections of Me

The Reflections of Me
Author: Tivona Elliott Clark
Publisher: Elliott Night Professionals
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2016-11-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1539883744

Livin’ my life through poetry, you will always see; the reflections of me… Lady V

Reflection

Reflection
Author: Rebecca Johnson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2010-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1449074626

Clueless

Clueless
Author: Suhayl Hallim
Publisher: Suhayl Hallim
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2013-12-21
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

"Careless by Suhayl Hallim" is a book compiled with various different poems. All of which talks about love. What in terms of love does it talks about, well, I'll leave you to find that out.

Astral Creep Sessions: Songbook vol. I

Astral Creep Sessions: Songbook vol. I
Author: Lander Cartwright
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1300086955

From the origins of his songwriting, up through his days rubbing elbows with Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, Lander's lyrics continue to further the evolution of the spirit of music. In SongBook Volume I: The Astral Creep Sessions, Lander's lyrics (some complete, some incomplete) show their humble origins and simple melodies giving way and developing into a more complex spacecraft nearly ready to take flight.

Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons

Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons
Author: Martha Grace Duncan
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 1999-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814718817

Emerging from her fascination with anarchists while studying political science at Columbia, Duncan (law, Emory U.) explores the paradoxes of crime, such as law-abiding citizens who like to commit violent criminal deeds, convicts who find beauty in their prison yards, and wardens who lose their jobs because they are actually succeeding at rehabilitating their charges. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Music at the Edge

Music at the Edge
Author: Colin Lee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317397258

Music at the Edge invites the reader to experience a complete music therapy journey through the words and music of the client, and the therapist’s reflections. Francis, a musician living with AIDS, challenged Colin Andrew Lee, the music therapist, to help clarify his feelings about living and dying. The relationship that developed between them enabled Francis the opportunity to reconsider the meaning of his life and subsequent physical decline, within a musical context. First published in 1996, Music at the Edge is a unique and compelling music therapy case study. In this new edition of the highly successful book, Colin retains the force of the original text through the lens of contemporary music therapy theory. This edition also includes more detailed narrative responses from the author and his role as a therapist and gay man. Central to the book are the audio examples from the sessions themselves. The improvisations Francis played and his insightful verbal explorations provide an extraordinary glimpse into the therapeutic process when working in palliative and end-of-life care. This illuminating book offers therapists, musicians, related professionals and those working with, or facing, illness and death a unique glimpse into the transcendent powers of music. It is also relevant to anyone interested in the creative account of a pianist’s discovery of life and death through music.

Doing Time, Writing Lives

Doing Time, Writing Lives
Author: Patrick W. Berry
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2018-01-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0809336383

Winner, Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award 2019 Doing Time, Writing Lives offers a much-needed analysis of the teaching of college writing in U.S. prisons, a racialized space that—despite housing more than 2 million people—remains nearly invisible to the general public. Through the examination of a college-in-prison program that promotes the belief that higher education in prison can reduce recidivism and improve life prospects for the incarcerated and their families, author Patrick W. Berry exposes not only incarcerated students’ hopes and dreams for their futures but also their anxieties about whether education will help them. Combining case studies and interviews with the author’s own personal experience of teaching writing in prison, this book chronicles the attempts of incarcerated students to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories. It challenges polarizing rhetoric often used to describe what literacy can and cannot deliver, suggesting more nuanced and ethical ways of understanding literacy and possibility in an age of mass incarceration.