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- Summary
- ?Doing time.? For prison writers, it means more than serving a sentence; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one?s humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers? organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. Bell Chevigny, a former prison teacher, has selected the best of these submissions from over the last 25 years to create Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing?a vital work, demonstrating that prison writing is a vibrant part of American literature. This new edition will contain updated biographies of all contributors. The 51 original prisoners contributing to this volume deliver surprising tales, lyrics, and dispatches from an alien world covering the life span of imprisonment, from terrifying initiations to poignant friendships, from confrontations with family to death row, and sometimes share extraordinary breakthroughs. With 1.8 million men and women?roughly the population of Houston?In American jails and prisons, we must listen to?this small country of throwaway people,? in Prejean?s words. Doing Time frees them from their sentence of silence. We owe it to ourselves to listen to their voices
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Note
- "A PEN American Center prize anthology."
- Contents
-
- William Aberg
- Dog star desperado
- William Orlando
- How I became a convict
- Victor Hassine
- Arrival
- Judee Norton
- Time and its terms
- Reductions
- William Aberg
- Foreword
- 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
- Sister Helen Prejean
- 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
- Introduction
- Michael Hogan
- Autumn yard
- Chuck Culhane
- Letters come to prison
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Trina Marie
- Lori Lynn McLuckie
- After lights out
- Barbara Saunders
- Poem for the conguero in D Yard
- Bell Gale Chevigny
- Raymond Ringo Fernandez
- In the big yard
- Reginald Lewis
- Old man Motown
- Patrick Nolan
- The tower pig
- Scott A. Antworth
- The night the owl interrupted
- Daniel Roseboom
- Work
- Initiations
- Chronicling Sing Sing Prison
- Easy Waters
- Cut partner
- Michael E. Saucier
- Gun guard
- Michael E. Saucier
- Skyline turkey
- Richard Stratton
- Suicide!
- Robert Kelsey
- Prison letter
- Reading and writing
- Coming into language
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Pell grants for prisoners
- Jon Marc Taylor
- Tetrina
- Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
- Sestina: Reflections on Writing
- Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
- Behind the mirror's face
- M.A. Jones
- Paul St. John
- Black Flag to the rescue / Michael E. Saucier
- Players, games
- I see your work
- Joseph E. Sissler
- solidarity with cataracts
- Vera Montgomery
- Clandestine kisses
- Marilyn Buck
- Ryan's ruse
- Siempre
- Jackie Ruzas
- Feathers on the solar wind
- David Wood
- Death of a duke
- Dax Xenos
- Michael Wayne Hunter
- Lee's time
- Susan Rosenberg
- Family
- Ancestor
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Uncle Adam
- Diane Hamill Metzger
- The red dress
- Barbara Saunders
- Race, chance, change
- 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
- First day on the job
- 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
- Henry Johnson
- 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
- Eleven days under siege
- David Taber
- The 5-Spot Cafe
- Henry Johnson
- Melody
- J.C. Amberchele
- Mel /
- J.C. Amberchele
- Getting out
- Dream of escape
- Henry Johnson
- Paul Mulryan
- 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
- Pearl got stabbed!
- 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"
- Charles P. Norman
- Judith Clark
- Sam
- Isbn
- 9781611451443
- Label
- Doing time : 25 years of prison writing
- Title
- Doing time
- Title remainder
- 25 years of prison writing
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Bell Gale Chevigny ; foreword by Helen Prejean
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ?Doing time.? For prison writers, it means more than serving a sentence; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one?s humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers? organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. Bell Chevigny, a former prison teacher, has selected the best of these submissions from over the last 25 years to create Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing?a vital work, demonstrating that prison writing is a vibrant part of American literature. This new edition will contain updated biographies of all contributors. The 51 original prisoners contributing to this volume deliver surprising tales, lyrics, and dispatches from an alien world covering the life span of imprisonment, from terrifying initiations to poignant friendships, from confrontations with family to death row, and sometimes share extraordinary breakthroughs. With 1.8 million men and women?roughly the population of Houston?In American jails and prisons, we must listen to?this small country of throwaway people,? in Prejean?s words. Doing Time frees them from their sentence of silence. We owe it to ourselves to listen to their voices
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 810.80920692
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS508.P7
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Chevigny, Bell Gale
- American Center of P.E.N
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- Prisoners' writings, American
- Prisoners
- Prisons
- American literature
- FICTION
- American literature
- Prisoners
- Prisoners' writings, American
- Prisons
- Label
- Doing time : 25 years of prison writing, edited by Bell Gale Chevigny ; foreword by Helen Prejean
- Link
- Note
- "A PEN American Center prize anthology."
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- unknown
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- online resource
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- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- William Aberg
- Dog star desperado
- William Orlando
- How I became a convict
- Victor Hassine
- Arrival
- Judee Norton
- Time and its terms
- Reductions
- William Aberg
- Foreword
- 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
- Sister Helen Prejean
- 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
- Introduction
- Michael Hogan
- Autumn yard
- Chuck Culhane
- Letters come to prison
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Trina Marie
- Lori Lynn McLuckie
- After lights out
- Barbara Saunders
- Poem for the conguero in D Yard
- Bell Gale Chevigny
- Raymond Ringo Fernandez
- In the big yard
- Reginald Lewis
- Old man Motown
- Patrick Nolan
- The tower pig
- Scott A. Antworth
- The night the owl interrupted
- Daniel Roseboom
- Work
- Initiations
- Chronicling Sing Sing Prison
- Easy Waters
- Cut partner
- Michael E. Saucier
- Gun guard
- Michael E. Saucier
- Skyline turkey
- Richard Stratton
- Suicide!
- Robert Kelsey
- Prison letter
- Reading and writing
- Coming into language
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Pell grants for prisoners
- Jon Marc Taylor
- Tetrina
- Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
- Sestina: Reflections on Writing
- Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
- Behind the mirror's face
- M.A. Jones
- Paul St. John
- Black Flag to the rescue / Michael E. Saucier
- Players, games
- I see your work
- Joseph E. Sissler
- solidarity with cataracts
- Vera Montgomery
- Clandestine kisses
- Marilyn Buck
- Ryan's ruse
- Siempre
- Jackie Ruzas
- Feathers on the solar wind
- David Wood
- Death of a duke
- Dax Xenos
- Michael Wayne Hunter
- Lee's time
- Susan Rosenberg
- Family
- Ancestor
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Uncle Adam
- Diane Hamill Metzger
- The red dress
- Barbara Saunders
- Race, chance, change
- 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
- First day on the job
- 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
- Henry Johnson
- 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
- Eleven days under siege
- David Taber
- The 5-Spot Cafe
- Henry Johnson
- Melody
- J.C. Amberchele
- Mel /
- J.C. Amberchele
- Getting out
- Dream of escape
- Henry Johnson
- Paul Mulryan
- 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
- Pearl got stabbed!
- 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"
- Charles P. Norman
- Judith Clark
- Sam
- Control code
- ocn816332804
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781611451443
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- unknown
- Media category
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- Reformatting quality
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- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 57A7E5F9-87F0-4CF6-B57F-331DDC04BBFF
- System control number
- (OCoLC)816332804
- Label
- Doing time : 25 years of prison writing, edited by Bell Gale Chevigny ; foreword by Helen Prejean
- Link
- Note
- "A PEN American Center prize anthology."
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- William Aberg
- Dog star desperado
- William Orlando
- How I became a convict
- Victor Hassine
- Arrival
- Judee Norton
- Time and its terms
- Reductions
- William Aberg
- Foreword
- 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
- Sister Helen Prejean
- 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
- Introduction
- Michael Hogan
- Autumn yard
- Chuck Culhane
- Letters come to prison
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Trina Marie
- Lori Lynn McLuckie
- After lights out
- Barbara Saunders
- Poem for the conguero in D Yard
- Bell Gale Chevigny
- Raymond Ringo Fernandez
- In the big yard
- Reginald Lewis
- Old man Motown
- Patrick Nolan
- The tower pig
- Scott A. Antworth
- The night the owl interrupted
- Daniel Roseboom
- Work
- Initiations
- Chronicling Sing Sing Prison
- Easy Waters
- Cut partner
- Michael E. Saucier
- Gun guard
- Michael E. Saucier
- Skyline turkey
- Richard Stratton
- Suicide!
- Robert Kelsey
- Prison letter
- Reading and writing
- Coming into language
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Pell grants for prisoners
- Jon Marc Taylor
- Tetrina
- Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
- Sestina: Reflections on Writing
- Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
- Behind the mirror's face
- M.A. Jones
- Paul St. John
- Black Flag to the rescue / Michael E. Saucier
- Players, games
- I see your work
- Joseph E. Sissler
- solidarity with cataracts
- Vera Montgomery
- Clandestine kisses
- Marilyn Buck
- Ryan's ruse
- Siempre
- Jackie Ruzas
- Feathers on the solar wind
- David Wood
- Death of a duke
- Dax Xenos
- Michael Wayne Hunter
- Lee's time
- Susan Rosenberg
- Family
- Ancestor
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Uncle Adam
- Diane Hamill Metzger
- The red dress
- Barbara Saunders
- Race, chance, change
- 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
- First day on the job
- 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
- Henry Johnson
- 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
- Eleven days under siege
- David Taber
- The 5-Spot Cafe
- Henry Johnson
- Melody
- J.C. Amberchele
- Mel /
- J.C. Amberchele
- Getting out
- Dream of escape
- Henry Johnson
- Paul Mulryan
- 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
- Pearl got stabbed!
- 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"
- Charles P. Norman
- Judith Clark
- Sam
- Control code
- ocn816332804
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781611451443
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 57A7E5F9-87F0-4CF6-B57F-331DDC04BBFF
- System control number
- (OCoLC)816332804
Subject
- 1900-1999
- American literature
- American literature -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- FICTION -- Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Literary collections
- Prisoners
- Prisoners -- Literary collections
- Prisoners' writings, American
- Prisoners' writings, American
- Prisons
- Prisons -- Literary collections
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