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Prison writing in 20th-century America
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"This unique collection dramatizes the history of the modern American prison and offers a harrowing vision of prison life in America today. H. Bruce Franklin, a leading authority on American prison...
"This unique collection dramatizes the history of the modern American prison and offers a harrowing vision of prison life in America today. H. Bruce Franklin, a leading authority on American prison writing, has gathered more than sixty selections from some of the most powerful works - memoirs, stories, novels, poems written in the last hundred years."--BOOK JACKET.
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- edited by H. Bruce Franklin ; with a foreword by Tom Wicker
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- English
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- New York : Penguin Books, 1998
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- xv, 368 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780140273052, 0140273050
- OCLC
- ocm37792559
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-18).
- Foreword / Tom Wicker -- Autobiography of an Imprisoned Peon (1904) -- Songs of the Prison Plantation. "Go Down Old Hannah" "Midnight Special" "Easy Rider" -- Jack London -- "'Pinched': A Prison Experience" and "The Pen: Long Days in a County Penitentiary" (1907) -- Donald Lowrie -- from My Life in Prison (1912) -- Agnes Smedley -- "Cell Mates" (1920) -- Kate Richards O'Hare -- from Crime and Criminals (1921) -- Jim Tully -- "A California Holiday" (1928) -- Ernest Booth -- "Ladies in Durance Vile" (1931) -- Chester Himes -- "To What Red Hell?" (1934) -- Nelson Algren -- "El Presidente de Mejico" (1947) -- Robert Lowell -- "Memories of West Street and Lepke" (1959) -- Malcolm X -- from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) -- George Jackson -- from Soledad Brother (1970) -- Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck) -- from The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim (1971) -- MSHAKA (Willie Monroe) -- "Formula for Attica Repeats" (1974) -- Piri Thomas -- from Seven Long Times (1974) -- Jack Henry Abbott -- from In the Belly of the Beast (1981) -- Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) -- from Assata (1987) -- Malcolm Braly -- from On the Yard (1967) -- Etheridge Knight -- "The Warden Said to Me the Other Day" (1968) -- "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane" (1968) -- "For Freckle-Faced Gerald" (1968) -- Paul Mariah -- "Quarry/Rock: A Reality Poem in the Tradition of Genet" (1969) -- "Always We Watch Them" (1970) -- "Shakedown & More" (1971) -- Norma Stafford -- "In Santa Cruz" (1972) -- "The Gone One" (1973) -- William Wantling -- from "Sestina to San Quentin" (1973) -- "Poetry" (1973) -- "Who's Bitter?" (1973) -- Michael Hogan -- "Spring" (1975) -- "Confessions of a Jailhouse Lawyer" (1975) -- Carolyn Baxter -- "Lower Court" (1979) -- "35 Years a Correctional Officer" (1979) -- "On Being Counted" (1979) -- Jimmy Santiago Baca -- "The New Warden" (1979) -- "The County Jail" (1979) -- "I Applied for the Board" (1982) -- Jackie Ruzas -- "Easy to Kill" (1975) -- "The Bus Ride" (1983) -- Edward Bunker -- from Little Boy Blue (1981) -- Nathan C. Heard -- from House of Slammers (1983) -- Charles Culhane -- "Of Cold Places" (1984) -- "Autumn Yard" (1985) -- "First Day of Hanukkah" (1986) -- Patricia McConnel -- "Sing Soft, Sing Loud" (1989) -- Kim Wozencraft -- from Notes from the Country Club (1993) -- Jerome Washington -- "Diamond Bob" (1994) -- "The Blues Merchant" (1994) -- "Nobody's Hoss" (1994) -- "Barracuda and Sheryl" (1994) -- "Shing-a-Ling and China" (1994) -- Kathy Boudin -- "Our Skirt" (1997) -- "The Call" (1997) -- Dannie Martin ("Red Hog") -- "AIDS: The View from a Prison Cell" (1986) -- "A Prescription for Torture" (1990) -- "A Mount Everest of Time" (1990) -- Mumia Abu-Jamal -- "B-Block Days and Nightmares" (1990) -- "Skeleton Bay" (1993) -- "Already Out of the Game" (1994) -- Jimmy Santiago Baca -- "Past Present" (1992)