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Author | : Leonard Peltier |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250119286 |
In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
Author | : Bobby Sands Trust |
Publisher | : Mercier Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1781171106 |
In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons – abuses ignored by all but a handful of individuals and civil rights organisations.
Author | : H. Bruce Franklin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 1998-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1440621284 |
"Harrowing in their frank detail and desperate tone, the selections in this anthology pack an emotional wallop...Should be required reading for anyone concerned about the violence in our society and the high rate of recidivism."—Publishers Weekly. Includes work by: Jack London, Nelson Algren, Chester Himes,Jack Henry Abbott, Robert Lowell, Malcolm X, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Piri Thomas.
Author | : Bell Gale Chevigny |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1611451442 |
A special collection of the best fiction, essays, poetry, and plays from annual PEN Prison Writing contest offers unique insights into the emotions and thoughts engendered by the prison experience, ranging from humor and empathy to rage, fear, and despair. 15,000 first printing.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Prisoners' writings |
ISBN | : 9780674984387 |
Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A savage indictment of society, and testimony to private sufferings, his prison writings--illuminated by Nicholas Frankel's notes--reveal a different man from the dandy and aesthete who shocked or amused the English-speaking world.
Author | : John Sinclair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Popular culture |
ISBN | : |
Prison writings of John Sinclair "the father of the midwest rock and roll scene" in the early 1970s.
Author | : Antonio Gramsci |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231075541 |
Hailed by Terry Eagleton in the Guardian as "definitive," this is the only complete and authoritative edition of Antonio Gramsci's deeply personal and vivid prison letters.
Author | : Daniel Genis |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0698405765 |
A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit" In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint, he was nicknamed the “Apologetic Bandit” in the press, given his habit of expressing regret to his victims as he took their cash. He was sentenced to twelve years—ten with good behavior, a decade he survived by reading 1,046 books, taking up weightlifting, having philosophical discussions with his fellow inmates, working at a series of prison jobs, and in general observing an existence for which nothing in his life had prepared him. Genis describes in unsparing and vivid detail the realities of daily life in the New York penal system. In his journey from Rikers Island and through a series of upstate institutions, he encounters violence on an almost daily basis, while learning about the social strata of gangs, the “court” system that sets geographic boundaries in prison yards, how sex was obtained, the workings of the black market in drugs and more practical goods, the inventiveness required for everyday tasks such as cooking, and how debilitating solitary confinement actually is—all while trying to preserve his relationship with his wife, whom he recently married. Written with empathy and wit, Sentence is a strikingly powerful memoir of the brutalities of prison and how one man survived them, leaving its walls with this book inside him, “one made of pain and fear and laughter and lots of other books.”
Author | : Avi Steinberg |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0767931319 |
Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs Bunny to show for himself. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, Steinberg remains stuck at a crossroads, his “romantic” existence as a freelance obituary writer no longer cutting it. Seeking direction (and dental insurance) Steinberg takes a job running the library counter at a Boston prison. He is quickly drawn into the community of outcasts that forms among his bookshelves—an assortment of quirky regulars, including con men, pimps, minor prophets, even ghosts—all searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. Steinberg recounts their daily dramas with heartbreak and humor in this one-of-a-kind memoir—a piercing exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780192839619 |
'All limitations, external or internal, are prison-walls, and life is a limitation.' Presenting the less familiar, serious Wilde before and after his fall, this volume includes The Soul of Man, a manifesto on Individualism, De Profundis, the self-analysing piece he wrote in gaol, two open letters to the Daily Chronicle on prison injustice, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, inspiredby the execution of a fellow-prisoner.