Author: SISU
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468533509
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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These poems came from a place within a Finnish man's mind, to escape the walls of confinement. They reflect the turmoil within the prison, and to look back at the peace and tranquility of a former life. I was an "outsider," and not in the good graces of the "jailer". Therefore, the only thing I could do, was to rely on my Finnish mind. The Finnish term for survival is called "Sisu". They had my broken body, but not my mind.
Author: Johnny Cash
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782119957
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his eyes. The poetry reveals his depth of understanding, both of the world around him and within - his frailties and his strengths alike. He pens verses in his hallmark voice, reflecting upon love, pain, freedom, fame and mortality. Illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash's own handwritten pages, Forever Words is a remarkable addition to the canon of one of America's heroes. His music is a part of our collective history, and here he demonstrates the depth of his talent as a writer. Edited and introduced by Paul Muldoon, with a foreword by John Carter Cash, this is a book sure to delight and surprise fans the world over.
Author: Jack Black
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627932755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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An amazing autobiography of a criminal from a forgotten time in american history. Jack Black was a burgler, safe-cracker, highwayman and petty thief.
Author: Susannah Nevison
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
ISBN: 9780814255162
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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A collection of poetry that reckons with the rituals of violence that underpin the American prison system.
Author: Burton Folsom
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 159555601X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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In January 1983 Burt Folsom read a story in Time about Mitch Rutledge, a man on death row with an IQ of 84 who said he was sorry for what he did. "Forget him," the last line of the story read. But Burt wrote Mitch a letter and discovered a man more interesting and intelligent than the article revealed. Burt and his wife, Anita, began a friendship with Mitch and saw him become a leader and role model for others in prison, teaching himself to read and write (starting with copying down the spelling of items he knew from TV commercials) and becoming a national spokesman on prison life. Death on Hold is the amazing story of their friendship, and of grace, reconciliation, and redemption for a man without hope who was given a future.
Author: Pancho Aguila
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: Mark Nowak
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Social Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Social Poetics presents a people’s history of the poetry workshop from the founding director of the Worker Writers School. Nowak illustrates not just what poetry means, but what it does to and for people outside traditional literary spaces, from taxi drivers to street vendors, and other workers of the world.
Author: Gordon Kirkwood-Yates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Alejandro Murgu’a
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 1931404135
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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COMING SOON! San Francisco's first Latino poet laureate offers new poems written in the native tongue of contemporary America: English-and-Spanish.ALERT ME WHEN THE BOOK BECOMES AVAILABLE
Author: Melinda Palacio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882688449
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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Melinda Palacio's newest poetry collection creates images that are at once heartbreaking and humorous. She tackles elemental subjects of family and childhood with the same depth and grace as that of myth making and death. As the only child of a mother who died too young, she infuses her words with longing and life, and celebrates the women who came before her. Each poem offers up the truth in a fearless and unsentimental voice. Palacio's lyrical language punches an unexpected pause to subjects such as domestic violence and her childhood in South Central Los Angeles. How Fire Is A Story, Waiting is divided into four sections: Fire, Air, Water, and Earth. In each section Palacio tempers heartbreak, violence, and disappointment with the antidote of humor, beauty, and an appreciation for life.
