Prison Writings in 20th-Century America,9780140273052

Prison Writings in 20th-Century America

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ISBN13: 9780140273052
ISBN10: 0140273050
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-06-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

"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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xi
Tom Wicker
Introduction 1(20)
FROM PLANTATION TO PENITENTIARY
Plantation Prison
21(8)
Autobiography of an Imprisoned Peon (1904)
21(8)
Songs of The Prison Plantation
29(8)
``Go Down Old Hannah''
31(2)
``Midnight Special''
33(1)
``Easy Rider''
34(3)
THE EARLY MODERN AMERICAN PRISON
Jack London
37(20)
```Pinched': A Prison Experience'' and ``The Pen: Long Days in a County Penitentiary'' (1907)
38(19)
Donald Lowrie
57(4)
from My Life in Prison (1912)
58(3)
Agnes Smedley
61(12)
``Cell Mates'' (1920)
63(10)
Kate Richards O'Hare
73(16)
from Crime and Criminals (1921)
74(15)
Jim Tully
89(13)
``A California Holiday'' (1928)
90(12)
Ernest Booth
102(17)
``Ladies in Durance Vile'' (1931)
103(16)
Chester Himes
119(10)
``To What Red Hell?'' (1934)
120(9)
Nelson Algren
129(12)
``El Presidente de Mejico'' (1947)
130(11)
Robert Lowell
141(6)
``Memories of West Street and Lepke'' (1959)
142(5)
THE MOVEMENT AND THE PRISON
Malcolm X
147(8)
from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
149(6)
George Jackson
155(11)
from Soledad Brother (1970)
157(9)
Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck)
166(12)
from The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim (1971)
168(10)
Mshaka (Willie Monroe)
178(1)
``Formula for Attica Repeats'' (1974)
179(1)
Piri Thomas
179(8)
from Seven Long Times (1974)
181(6)
Jack Henry Abbott
187(13)
from In the Belly of the Beast (1981)
189(11)
Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard)
200(17)
from Assata (1987)
201(16)
THE LITERARY RENAISSANCE
Malcolm Braly
217(13)
from On the Yard (1967)
218(12)
Etheridge Knight
230(3)
``The Warden Said to Me the Other Day'' (1968)
231(1)
``Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane'' (1968)
231(1)
``For Freckle-Faced Gerald'' (1968)
232(1)
Paul Mariah
233(6)
``Quarry/Rock: A Reality Poem in the Tradition of Genet'' (1969)
234(3)
``Always We Watch Them'' (1970)
237(1)
``Shakedown & More'' (1971)
238(1)
Norma Stafford
239(3)
``In Santa Cruz'' (1972)
239(1)
``The Gone One'' (1973)
240(2)
William Wantling
242(3)
from ``Sestina to San Quentin'' (1973)
242(1)
``Poetry'' (1973)
243(1)
``Who's Bitter?'' (1973)
244(1)
Michael Hogan
245(3)
``Spring'' (1975)
246(1)
``Confessions of a Jailhouse Lawyer'' (1975)
247(1)
Carolyn Baxter
248(4)
``Lower Court'' (1979)
248(1)
``35 Years a Correctional Officer'' (1979)
249(1)
``On Being Counted'' (1979)
250(2)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
252(4)
``The New Warden'' (1979)
253(1)
``The County Jail'' (1979)
254(1)
``I Applied for the Board'' (1982)
255(1)
Jackie Ruzas
256(3)
``Easy to Kill'' (1975)
257(1)
``The Bus Ride'' (1983)
257(2)
Edward Bunker
259(21)
from Little Boy Blue (1981)
260(20)
Nathan C. Heard
280(10)
from House of Slammers (1983)
281(9)
Charles Culhane
290(4)
``Of Cold Places'' (1984)
292(1)
``Autumn Yard'' (1985)
292(1)
``First Day of Hanukkah'' (1986)
293(1)
Patricia McConnel
294(12)
``Sing Soft, Sing Loud'' (1989)
295(11)
Kim Wozencraft
306(12)
from Notes from the Country Club (1993)
307(11)
Jerome Washington
318(11)
``Diamond Bob'' (1994)
319(2)
``The Blues Merchant'' (1994)
321(1)
``Nobody's Hoss'' (1994)
322(2)
``Barracuda and Sheryl'' (1994)
324(1)
``Shing-a-Ling and China'' (1994)
324(5)
Kathy Boudin
329(8)
``Our Skirt'' (1997)
330(2)
``The Call'' (1997)
332(5)
THE AMERICAN GULAG TODAY
Dannie Martin (``Red Hog'')
337(13)
``AIDS: The View from a Prison Cell'' (1986)
338(3)
``A Prescription for Torture'' (1990)
341(4)
``A Mount Everest of Time'' (1990)
345(5)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
350(7)
``B-Block Days and Nightmares'' (1990)
351(3)
``Skeleton Bay'' (1993)
354(2)
``Already Out of the Game'' (1994)
356(1)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
357(1)
``Past Present'' (1992)
358

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