Research Catalog

Title

Doing time : 25 years of prison writing / edited by Bell Gale Chevigny ; foreword by Helen Prejean.

Publication

New York : Arcade Pub., 2011

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chevigny, Bell Gale.
• PEN America.

Description

xxviii, 371 p.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Doing time : twenty-five years of prison writing

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Prisoners' writings, American
• Prisoners > Literary collections
• Prisons > Literary collections
• American literature > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Literary collections.

Note

• "A PEN American Center prize anthology."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 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 -- An 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 -- The 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 --
• 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 -- The red dress / Barbara Saunders -- Ignorance is no excuse for the law / Alejo Dao'ud Rodriguez -- Our skirt / Kathy Boudin -- The ball park / Henry Johnson -- Norton #59900 / Judee Norton -- A stranger / Anthony La Barca Falcone -- After my arrest / Judith Clark -- To Vladimir Mayakovsky / Judith Clark -- A trilogy of journeys / Kathy Boudin -- The 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 -- The film / David Taber -- The 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 -- The 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.

ISBN

• 1611451442
• 9781611451443

OCLC

• 746296430
• SCSB-12449075

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library